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HMDT blog: How can I teach children about the importance of HMD?

HMDT blog: How can I teach children about the importance of HMD?

This year we have partnered with 2Simple to create a range of resources on the Purple Mash platform to encourage more primary schools to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). These online activities build on the Primary School Assembly that introduces pupils to HMD, the Holocaust and discrimination in an age-appropriate way. The resources encourage pupils to think about consequences and impact of discrimination on those targeted.

Our Chair is awarded CBE in King’s Honours List

Our Chair is awarded CBE in King’s Honours List

Our Chair, Laura Marks, has been awarded a CBE for social campaigner and broadcaster, interfaith relations and Holocaust and genocide education and commemoration and empowerment of women in the King’s first Birthday Honours List since his Coronation.

HMDT photo blog: A journey of learning

HMDT photo blog: A journey of learning

In early May, our staff and trustees visited Auschwitz and other sites significant to the Holocaust in Poland. Visiting these physical spaces where the events of the Holocaust took place reinforces the enormity of what happened and the need to understand it in order to prevent such atrocities happening again. Here we have used photographs and insights from our trip to convey some of what we felt and learned from the experience.