Statement from Holocaust Education Trust Ireland: As New Zealand prepares to bury it’s dead, HETI wishes to express its solidarity with those who have lost loved ones or who are suffering injury. The lessons of the Holocaust should teach us that evil can triumph at any time or in any place. Sadly it’s brutal effects respect […]
HETI Director Heino Schönfeld spoke with Dublin South FM’s Martin O’Connor about the National Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration held in the Round Room at the Mansion House Sunday 27 January 2019, and the role of HETI in Holocaust education.
The national Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration, organised under the auspices of Holocaust Education Trust Ireland, took place in Dublin on Sunday 27 January in the Round Room at Mansion House to a capacity audience of 700 people. President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins gave the keynote address. The Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and […]
Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann Tuesday 12 February 19:30 Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann teaches modern European History at Birkbeck College (University of London). He has written widely on Nazi terror, most recently KL: A history of the Nazi concentration camps (Little Brown, 2015), winner of the Wolfson Prize, the Mark Lynton […]
The Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration cherishes the memory of all who perished in the Holocaust. It recalls six million Jewish men, women and children and millions of others who were persecuted and murdered by the Nazis because of their ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliations or their religious beliefs. The ceremony includes readings, survivors’ recollections, […]
Next week HETI founding trustee Lynn Jackson and HETI’s Director Heino Schönfeld will attend the plenary meeting of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in Ferrara, Italy. IHRA is uniting governments and experts to strengthen, advance, and promote Holocaust education, remembrance, and research worldwide and to uphold the commitments of the 2000 Stockholm Declaration.
On Thursday 08 November, Holocaust Education Trust Ireland in conjunction with The Herzog Centre and The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin, held the annual November Lecture to mark the anniversary of the November Pogrom, 1938. Tomi Reichental (Holocaust survivor Bergen-Belsen) was in conversation with Clodagh Finn (author and journalist). Tomi spoke about […]
Holocaust Education Trust Ireland has learned with much sadness of the death of Max Levitas, 02 November 2018 aged 103. Max was born in Ireland to Lithuanian parents who fled antisemitism in 1913 to join family already living in Dublin. He was an ardent trade unionist who opposed fascism and antisemitism all of his life. […]
By Heino Schönfeld, Director, Holocaust Education Trust Ireland On November 9 we remember the 80th anniversary of a terrible and murderous pogrom against the Jewish people which predicted the even more murderous events to come. The year 1938 was a fateful year for European and world history. On March 12 German troops occupied Austria, […]
Heino Schönfeld, Director of the Holocaust Education Trust Ireland met recently with representatives of the Kreuzberg Initiative against Anti-Semitism – KIgA in Berlin. Founded in 2003/04, the Kreuzberg Initiative against Anti-Semitism (KIgA), a registered non-for-profit organisation, was one of the first German civil society initiatives to develop education-based methods for dealing with anti-Semitism in a […]