Lucie Adelsberger, born #OTD 1895, was a doctor and practiced until 1938. She was deported to Auschwitz because of her Jewish origins, where she worked as a prisoner doctor in the Roma and women's camp. She survived and died in 1971. tinyurl.com/f7s57cub

Stuart Foster, Andy Pearce, Alice Pettigrew Holocaust Education and contributors present contemporary challenges and controversies of Holocaust education. This book is available as an #OpenAccess text from UCL Press #Education ow.ly/j3aw30sAL0x

📢Do you or colleagues teach about the Holocaust in history, RE, English, citizenship, Psychology or another subject?
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At age 16, Elie Wiesel was one of the more than 21,000 people liberated from Buchenwald #OTD in 1945. 'I knew I would have to bear witness. Everyone who was there is a witness, and everyone who was there is a true witness,' he told NPR in 1988. 📷: National Archives

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Today is #NationalPetDay .
In April 1936, Jews were barred from being vets.
Today we remember how Jewish professional & economic rights were rescinded by the Nazis - but also, pause to consider what happened to Jewish owned pets in the Holocaust?

📸 US Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem

11 April 1987. Primo Levi died (aged 67). His death was ruled as suicide. He was the most well known Holocaust survivor due to his harrowing book, If This is a Man, which describes the year he spent as a prisoner in the notorious German Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp.

OTD 1945, Elie Wiesel was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp. Ten years later, he began writing his memoir Night. 'I knew I would have to bear witness.' I always recommend his book to my students. Such a powerful and moving testimony from someone a similar age to them.

#OnThisDay in 1945, #Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by the US Army. They found only a few hundred surviving prisoners remaining in the camp, mostly the sick or dying

📷 An unknown survivor sits in front of the Boelcke barracks after liberation, Nordhausen, 1945

11 April 1908 | A Czech Jew, Karel Ančerl, was born. A conductor and composer.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 October 1944. His wife & son were murdered in gas chambers.
Karel was liberated in a sub camp of Gross-Rosen.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Anč…

📢Do you or colleagues teach about the Holocaust in history, RE, English, citizenship, Psychology or another subject?
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Today is #NationalPetDay .
In April 1936, Jews were barred from being vets.
Today we remember how Jewish professional & economic rights were rescinded by the Nazis - but also, pause to consider what happened to Jewish owned pets in the Holocaust?

📸 US Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem

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In our #MOOC , in partnership with Yad Vashem, Andy Pearce explores the limitations of student knowledge of the #Holocaustbybullets and the Einsatzgruppen.
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Throughout Feb-Apr 1945 thousands of prisoners arrived at Bergen-Belsen, at the end of a death march, during which many Jews died or were killed.
Learn more in Unit 4 of our textbook, or explore belsen75.org.uk/resources (created in 2020, with H.E.T. & The National Holocaust Centre and Museum) RT

Friends PortraitEMB's national survey has been extended til 30 April.
They want to hear from teachers of different subjects to hear your views & experiences on #BritishEmpire T&L.
Input will directly shape future CPD.
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#OnThisDay in 1944, Rudolf Vrba & Alfréd Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz. Their joint report 'The Auschwitz Protocols' was one of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the mass killings taking place in the camp

In 1958 Vrba gave his testimony to the Library's researchers

📢Do you or colleagues teach about the Holocaust in history, RE, English, citizenship, Psychology or another subject?
If so, your students can take part in our latest national survey exploring knowledge, misconceptions, attitudes & more.
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Looking for short, self-guided online CPD?
'Authentic Encounters with the Holocaust: A starting point for teachers’ will introduce you to our pedagogical approach & a way of starting a SoL on the Holocaust in 45mins.
Click here: holocausteducation.org.uk/online-course-
RT Corey Helen McCord

In our #MOOC , in partnership with Yad Vashem, Andy Pearce explores the limitations of student knowledge of the #Holocaustbybullets and the Einsatzgruppen.
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