“We share a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Holocaust.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
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"The Holocaust Explained" Website launched in UK
26.01.2011
Sir Andrew Burns launched the ground-breaking multimedia website, which has been developed specifically for young people with no prior knowledge of the Holocaust. The launch event at the Foreign Office took place in the run-up to Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January, and was attended by Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove.
Envoy on Post-Holocaust Issues submits report on Holocaust education in the UK
22.12.2010
The UK Government's Envoy on Post-Holocaust Issues, Sir Andrew Burns, has submitted a report on Holocaust education in Britain to an intergovernmental body of 27 member states and representatives of international organisations.
Book: Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain 1933-1970
08.11.2010
Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain 1933-1970: Their Image in ‘AJR Information' (Vallentine Mitchell, 2009), by Dr Anthony Grenville, is the first history of the refugees who fled to Britain from the German-speaking lands after 1933. Its main source of material is the monthly journal of the Association of Jewish Refugees, the refugees' own organisation, which has been appearing since 1946.
UK appoints Envoy for post-Holocaust Issues
09.06.2010
Foreign Secretary William Hague has appointed Sir Andrew Burns as the United Kingdom's first Envoy for post-Holocaust Issues.
Press release by the Foreign Office of the United Kingdom: Wednesday 9 June 2010
Transforming Holocaust education in English schools
19.10.2009
The United Kingdom has launched one of the most far-reaching and ambitious programmes of teacher professional development in Holocaust education existing in the world today.
The Holocaust Education Development Programme (HEDP) undertook landmark research that provides a more comprehensive empirical portrait of Holocaust education in England's secondary schools than has ever existed before, and has launched a free national programme of teacher professional development designed to address directly the issues and challenges identified by this research.
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