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.
Members of the EIS-ULA at Robert Gordon University are set to take their fourth and fifth days of strike action on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th May, intensifying their ongoing dispute with University management over planned compulsory redundancies
The EIS is hosting a webinar tomorrow: Knowing Your Rights - webinar for early career and newly qualified teachers🎓🍎
📅Wed 28th May
⏲️5.30-7pm
📍Online
More info on our website:
NEW: Scottish teacher pay offer must be above inflation, says @EISUnion - @Emma_Seith reports @TesScotland
Andrea Bradley EIS Gen Sec will be speaking at the #StopReform Stand Up To Racism summit
This is a chance for activists to come together and organise agaisnt the rise of the far right in Scotland✊
📍The Boardwalk, Glasgow
🗓️Sat 31 May
🎟️Book your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stop-reform-2026-organising-against-racism-and-fascism-in-scotland-tickets-1226445123379
