Holocaust Educational Trust

Holocaust Educational Trust

The Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) is a British charity, founded by Greville Janner and Merlyn ReesRp|2 in 1988, whose aim is to "educate young people of every background about the Holocaust and the important lessons to be learned for today."cite web
url = http://www.het.org.uk/content.php?page_id=5
title = About the Holocaust Educational Trust
date = n.d.
publisher = Holocaust Educational Trust
accessdate = 2008-01-24] Its chairman is Greville Janner and its president is R. Stephen Rubin. [cite web
url = http://www.grevillejanner.org.uk/charity.html
title = Lord Janner of Braunstone QC
date = n.d.
publisher = www.grevillejanner.org.uk
accessdate = 2008-01-24] cite web
url = http://www.het.org.uk/docs/annual_report_2006_0.pdf
format =pdf
title = Annual Report 2006
date = 2006
publisher = Holocaust Educational Trust
accessdate = 2008-01-24] Its Honorary Patrons include the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, Lord Dholakia, Lord Mackay of Clashfern and Elie Wiesel.Rp|28

The HET states that one of its earliest achievements was ensuring that the Holocaust formed part of the National Curriculum for history.

Work

Under its "Outreach Programme", the HET arranges visits to schools by Holocaust survivors, often accompanied by one of its own educators.Rp|6 The trust helps several hundred teachers a year to teach more effectively about the Holocaust, including both PGCE students and practising teachers.Rp|7 The trust organises an annual intensive ten-day course in Israel for teachers, in partnership with the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem.Rp|15-17

"Lessons from Auschwitz" Project

The trust arranges visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau for sixth-form students and police officers. A "Guardian" reporter who accompanied such a visit in 1999 wrote:

Trust members knew from experience, both personal and from the teachers' trip to Auschwitz earlier this year, that this visit would be tough. [...] Seeing one horrendous exhibit after another was relentless and exhausting - many of us ended up numb, stunned, freezing cold. Then we felt awful - how dare we find it too much after a few hours? [cite news
author = Emily Moore
title = Lessons in death
url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3927499,00.html
publisher = The Guardian
page =
date = 9 November 1999
accessdate = 2008-01-24]

In 2006, more than 400 students made such visits.Rp|8-9 This project is supported by a £1.5 million grant from the Treasury, enabling two students from every secondary school and further education college in Britain to visit Auschwitz each year. The trust asks students on this programme to report on their visit to their schools and the wider community, and chooses one pair of students as the HET's "student ambassadors" for the year.Rp|10-11;14-15

See also

*Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)
*Holocaust teaching controversy of 2007

Notes

External links

*cite web
url = http://www.het.org.uk/
title = Holocaust Educational Trust
date =
publisher =


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