Holocaust Educational Trust Blog

In this special Remembering Belsen podcast, the Trust's Head of Education Alex Maws and Professor Tony Kushner reflect on the camp's liberation and its impact on British understanding of the Holocaust.

Today, the Holocaust Educational Trust and the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX) are taking delegations to join international commemorations to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. In the last of our blogs in this series, Executive Director of AJEX Jacques Weisser reflects on the importance of marking this anniversary.

Tomorrow we will be visiting Bergen-Belsen to participate in international commemorations to mark 70 years since its liberation. Ahead of this visit, Regional Ambassador Callum Devine has blogged on why he wanted to be part of the delegation.

As we look ahead to international commemorations taking place at Bergen-Belsen on Sunday 26th April, Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich MBE reflects on her time at the camp. 

Following the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, relief workers and medical staff entered the camp to provide emergency support. In this blog, Education Officer Jenny Carson looks at the reflections and memories of those who made up the Friends Relief Service. 

In the latest of our blogs to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, the Trust’s Education Officer Martin Winstone explores the challenges the camp’s history creates for our understanding of the perpetrators of the Holocaust.

In our latest blog, author Thomas Harding tells the story of his great-uncle Hanns Alexander who worked on the Belsen Trial in 1945.

As the Jewish community marked Yom HaShoah last week, Senior Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews Laura Marks has blogged on the poignancy of events held in communities across the world.

Today, thousands of people will be gathering at the national Yom HaShoah commemorative event to remember the Holocaust. In this article, originally published in the Jewish News, Yom HaShoah UK Chairman Neil Martin reflects on the importance of the day.

In the latest of our blogs to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, historian Professor David Cesarani OBE gives us a brief history of the camp.