The Council for Catholic Maintained Schools is encouraging all of its Post Primary schools to participate in a project to remember Auschwitz.
For the first time in Northern Ireland, the Holocaust Educational Trust is offering 6th Form students the opportunity to participate in a national initiative,Lessons from Auschwitz. The Project aims to promote tolerance and community cohesion and to target prejudice in local communities.
The Project revolves around a one day visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau with preliminary and follow up seminars held in Belfast. Students design and implement their own follow-up projects to share the lessons that they have learnt with their own schools and local communities. Students find this an exceptionally worthwhile and moving experience and are inspired to carry the lessons that they have taken to others in a variety of innovative ways.
The Project aims to take 2 students from every 6th Form institution in the United Kingdom. Thousands of students have already benefited from the scheme since its launch in 1999.
The dates for the Project are:
Sunday 30th March - Orientation Seminar (Belfast)
Tuesday 9th April– Visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland (leaving from Belfast Airport)
Thursday 17th April– Follow-Up Seminar (Belfast)
We are still accepting late applications from schools and colleges in Northern Ireland.
For more information (Clich here for the brochure).
For an application form (click here)
Alternatively contact -
Emma Klapsia
Education Co-ordinator
Lessons from Auschwitz Project
Holocaust Educational Trust
Tel: +44 (0)20 7222 4761
Fax: +44 (0)20 7233 0161
Email: emma.klapsia@het.org.uk