The Crocus Project 2021
Would you like to take part in the Crocus Project 2020/21? We are now accepting late applications.
Would you like to take part in the Crocus Project 2020/21? We are now accepting late applications.
‘The Hitler Conspiracies’ Annual Holocaust Lecture by Sir Richard J Evans – 16th Feb 2021 at 6pm HETI, in association with UCD School of History, presents Sir Richard J Evans for this years Holocaust Memorial lecture. Prof. Sir Richard J. Evans is one of the world’s leading historians of Nazi Germany and modern German history. […]
Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration was streamed online on the 24th of January 2021 at 6pm.
The online event is available to watch here. Holocaust Education Trust Ireland marks the anniversary of the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) which took place more than eighty years ago on the night of the 9th of November, 1938. Streamed online on the 9th of November 2020 at 6pm.
Dublin Festival of History 2020 presents Philippe Sands in conversation with Robert Gerwarth in partnership with Holocaust Education Trust Ireland.
Hundreds of thousands of young Jews left neither names nor records of their lives behind them. Rywka speaks for all of them in #TheGirlintheDiary exhibition. South Dublin Libraries Tallaght Library from 11th September -16th October North Clondalkin Library 19th October – 30th November Find more information about the exhibition here: https://www.aejm.org/projects/girl-diary-searching-rywka-lodz-ghetto/
Dr Bob Collis was one of the volunteer doctors from Ireland who worked with the British Red Cross in Bergen-Belsen immediately after the end of the war. He brought six orphan Jewish child survivors back to Ireland. His story was told in the Irish Independent Review. (Read the full story https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-irish-doctor-who-rescued-kids-from-belsen-39134237.html) Seventy-five years […]
The album of Albert “Paddy” Sutton, who died in 2018 at the age of 96, was handed over to the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) this year. It is being made public as part of a new online exhibition entitled Reflections on Resilience by the museum to coincide with the lockdown and the closure of the museum. (It is also exhibited by the National Library of Ireland).
In her new radio documentary feature, ‘Mary Elmes’, premiering this weekend on Newstalk 106-108fm as part of the Documentary On Newstalk Series, producer Bairbre Flood tells the extraordinary true story of Irish relief worker, Mary Elmes, who smuggled dozens of children to safety during WW2. The radio premiere of ‘Mary Elmes’ airs on Newstalk 106-108fm on Sunday […]
The “thousand-year” Nazi regime sank into a sea of blood and tears. When the guns finally fell silent on May 8, more than 60 million people were dead. Fallen at the front, murdered in concentration camps, burned in bombing nights, died of starvation, cold and violence. When the world found out what had happened in […]