Holocaust awareness generates activities that can be undertaken by secondary school students that include: essays, poetry, art, performances, History and Special Topic projects. These activities can be linked to study relating to the Holocaust, some of which already appears on the curriculum.
The Holocaust Educational Trust of Ireland arranges for Holocaust survivors to visit schools and provides guidelines for the organisers. Hearing survivors speak about their personal experiences is the most impressive way to prompt discussions and activities about the Holocaust and to consider anti-semitism and other forms of racism, intolerance and genocide.
Students' encounters with Holocaust survivors lead to a greater awareness about the dangers of discrimination and facilitate learning lessons that are relevant to their own generation. After hearing Holocaust survivors speak, the Trust encourages schools to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.
Study visits to centres of Holocaust education for school teachers and their students
The Holocaust Educational Trust of Ireland has designed one-day, three-day and five-day programs to centres of Holocaust Education that include preparation and follow-up seminars. Bursaries are available for participants on these program.
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1. A five day program on Holocaust Education for secondary school teachers
that includes a three-day visit to Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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2. A three-day program for senior secondary school students aged seventeen
or eighteen years that includes a one-day visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- 3. The Trust encourages teachers of Transition Year to take their students
on a one-day visit to either of two centres of Holocaust Education in
England: The Imperial War Museum, London or the Beth Shalom Holocaust
Centre in Nottingham. For details and further information, contact the
HETI office at: +353 1 6690593 or email: info@hetireland.org
