Holocaust, Refugees, and Humanitarianism

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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.