It is with much sadness that the Board of Holocaust Education Trust Ireland learned of the death of Sr. Carmel Niland. Sr Carmel was chairperson of the original Holocaust Memorial Day Committee and later, a founding trustee of HETI. Carmel was a champion of equality and human rights and was known nationally and internationally […]
It is 2020. A new century has moved into a new decade. Occasionally remembered are the generations and a continent ravaged by world wars. New generations are growing up in a Europe where most take for granted the right to live in a world, free from death and destruction. But now is a time for […]
The National Holocaust Memorial Day will be held on Sunday 26 January 2020, in the Round Room at the Mansion House at 6.00 pm. Due to great popularity we are now at capacity for the event and unable to issue further invitations. However, we will be live streaming the event on YouTube for anyone who […]
Oscar®-winning Actress, Helen Mirren, retraces Anne Frank’s life through the pages of her diary, and we are introduced to 5 other women who, as young girls, were also deported to concentration camps but survived the Holocaust. Written and directed by Sabina Fedeli and Anna Migotto, original soundtrack by Lele Marchitelli. Produced by 3D Produzioni & […]
The IFI in cooperation with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Holocaust Education Trust Ireland and Goethe Institut, will hold a screening of The People Vs Fritz Bauer, on Tuesday 14 January 2020, at 6.15 pm. This is in advance of Holocaust Memorial Day, January 2020, which celebrates the 75th anniversary of the liberation of […]
Holocaust Education Trust Ireland has a vacancy for a Full Time Programme Manager. Reporting to the Director, the responsibilities of the Programme Manager will include records management, financial recording and reporting, database maintenance and project management. Candidates must display empathy with and understanding of HETI’s mission and objectives, together with excellent communication, organisational, administrative and […]
The November Pogrom, 09 November 1938, Germany and Austria On 16 October 1938, the German government expelled 12,000 Polish Jews living in Germany; the Polish government accepted 4,000 and refused admittance to the remaining 8,000, who were forced to live in the no-man’s land on the German-Polish frontier. Among them were the Grynszpan family whose […]
Statement from Holocaust Education Trust Ireland “Holocaust Education Trust Ireland are shocked and saddened by the horrific attack on a Synagogue in Halle, Germany, on the holy day of Yom Kippur. Our thoughts are with the two murdered and their families. We wish the injured a speedy and complete recovery. It appears that the attack […]
Teachers! Would you like to take part in the Crocus Project 2019/20? We are now accepting late applications. This wonderful European wide project is free. If you would like your students to participate, please download the application form here. For more info please click here.
Holocaust Education Trust Ireland in association with the History Teachers Association of Ireland The Mary Elmes Prize in Holocaust Studies for Transition Year students 2020/2021. In 2013, Mary Elmes became the first Irish person to be awarded Righteous Among The Nations posthumously by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Remembrance Authority in Israel for saving hundreds […]