Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 events for schools in association with Picturehouse Education and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

 

REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST

Picturehouse Education are working with The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust on a series of events to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day this year.

Based around this year’s theme of ‘Keep the Memory Alive’ the events will feature a talk from a survivor alongside the screening of a short documentary relevant to the speakers’ experience to help your students gain a personal insight into the Holocaust.

The event will last approximately 2 hours, places are still available, in Oxford, Liverpool, Exeter and Stratford, London:

• London Stratford Picturehouse – Wed 14 Jan with Bernd Koschland

• Oxford Phoenix Pictuehouse – Fri 16 Jan with Agnes Grunwald-Spier

• Exeter Picturehouse – Fri 23 Jan with Lady Milena Grenfall-Baines

• Liverpool Picturehouse at FACT – Wednesday 21 Jan with Lady Milena Grenfall-Baines

Price: £3.50 per student (with accompanying teacher attending free)
HOW TO BOOK or fill in the online booking form.

Times: 10am start, length of event approx. 120mins
Suitable for: KS3, KS4 and AS/A2
Subject: English, History, Citizenship, Religious Studies, PSHE

About the speakers

Agnes Grunwald-Spier

Agnes will discuss her Hungarian Jewish family’s experiences during the Holocaust. She will explain how Hungarian anti-Jewish legislation, prior to the Nazi occupation in March 1944, led to her Father being rounded up for forced labour and how her Mother coped with being in the Budapest Ghetto with a tiny baby. Agnes was only six months old when Budapest was liberated in January 1945. She will explain the legacy the Holocaust had on her family and how she came to write her first book ‘The Other Schindlers’. Find out more about Agnes’s story here.

Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines

Milena will speak about her experiences as one of the 669 children who were transported safely to England at the outbreak of the war from Prague to London via Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport. Milena will cover in her talk her memories of the ‘Winton Train’ and its heroic organiser, and the threat against her father from an increasingly hostile Czechoslovakia that forced him to take refuge in the UK before she was able to join him.

Bernard Koscland

Bernd Koschland was born in Germany in 1931. Shortly after the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis began Bernd travelled to England alone on the Kindertransport. Bernd will discuss his experiences and how they have influenced his life. Find out more about Bernd’s story here.

About Holocaust Memorial Day Trust