History at the University of Huddersfield presents talks, workshops and films centred on the experience of the Holocaust. This includes a preview of material from the Holocaust Learning and Heritage Centre, which the Holocaust Survivor Friendship Association from Leeds is setting up at the University, enabling us to use the lessons from the Holocaust to discuss the plight of refugees then and now. It will also feature a participatory workshop for families run by the 6 million + Charitable Trust.
Saturday, 16/06/2018
PROGRAMME
11.00: Welcome coffee
11.30: Session with 6 million + Charitable Trust
A participatory workshop for families
This session uses buttons collected to represent each person who died in the Holocaust.
Suitable for children aged 7 years and above
12.30: Lunch
Including Children of the Holocaust animations
Suitable for children aged 7 years and above
13.30: Session with Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association: Survivor testimonies
This session is hosted by the Holocaust Learning Trust and is an opportunity to hear the first-person testimony of Trude Silman who will speak about her experiences of fleeing Nazi Germany to safety in Britain
This session is suitable for children aged 7 years and above.
For further information see:
http://holocaustlearning.org/survivors/trude-silman
14.30: Session with Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association: Document handling session
This is a hands-on session run by the Holocaust Learning Trust in collaboration with Dr Alex von Lunen of the History Department at Huddersfield.
This session is suitable for children aged 11 years and above
15.30: Coffee break
16.00: Talk: Prof Paul Weindling will give a talk on his research:
“Island Refuge or Alien Exclusion? The United Kingdom as a Haven for Refugees from Nazism and the Holocaust, 1933-1945”
This talk is not suitable for children.
