As part of our commitment to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, a member of the SEJ team accompanied a school group on a trip to Auschwitz in 2011. Featured below is a first-hand account of his experience and the history of the Holocaust.
To help prepare pupils for what they will experience, the Holocaust Educational Trust runs an extensive preparation programme ahead of each visit.
So it was that a very well prepared group – of Holocaust Educational Trust staff and volunteer educators, pupils, teachers and invited guests – mostly journalists – gathered at Edinburgh Airport in the very early hours of a late autumn morning.
Auschwitz I was the first camp to open in 1940, and was primarily a concentration camp.
We visit the hospital block, where the now infamous camp Doctor, Joseph Mengele, carried out horrific medical experiments on camp inmates.
Education Scotland is recruiting volunteer teachers and practitioners to form curriculum area collaboration groups as part of the next stage of the Curriculum Improvement Cycle.
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As part of the EIS’s plans to launch the next phase of our PACT Programme & build upon the EIS’s anti-poverty work and equity related professional learning, we are seeking to recruit and train new EIS PACTivists in every Local Authority.
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First day of #STUCWomen24 comes to a close after some brilliant and moving contributions. The EIS delegation will be back at conference tomorrow, representing our women members.
@DundeeEis Nicola, @EISGlasgow, speaking on Motion 35 - Support for the Forgotten Women of Afghanistan
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