Children studying in a clandestine school in the Kovno ghetto, Lithuania. USHMM, courtesy of Eliezer Zilberis 
A priest and several nuns pose with a group of children at a Franciscan convent school in Lomna, Poland where Jewish children were hidden during the German occupation. USHMM, courtesy of Lidia Kleinman Siciarz 
German passport for Hilde Schindler with the given middle name of Sara and stamped with J for Jude (Jew) Courtesy of the Jewish Museum London
Jewish children at the children’s home in Izieu, France. Soon afterwards they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered. Copyright © Yad Vashem 
Identity cards like this one were issued to all children who came to Britain with the 'Kindertransport', the organised groups of Jewish refugees who escaped from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938-9 Courtesy of the Jewish Museum London
Symposium Keynote Address by Prof. Yehuda Bauer
Making Connections in Holocaust Education: Scholarship, Research and Educational Practice.
A Symposium - 20 January 2009.
This event was organised by the Institute of Education’s Holocaust Education Development Programme (HEDP) and sponsored by The Pears Foundation.
The symposium - ‘Making Connections in Holocaust Education: Scholarship, Research and Educational Practice’ provided a rare opportunity of hearing the distinguished historian Professor Bauer address an audience in the UK.
The event was held at the Institute of Education University of London’s Logan Hall and was attended by over 400 delegates including Holocaust survivors, historians, teachers, students, academics, museum curators, journalists, teachers in training, and representatives from NGOs specialising in Holocaust education.
Professor Bauer is one of the leading scholars of the Holocaust and author of numerous seminal texts in the field including Rethinking the Holocaust (2001) and The Death of the Shtetl (2009) and has received global recognition for his work in Holocaust and genocide studies. He is currently Honorary Chair of the International Task Force for Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF) and Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem – the leading world centre for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust. In 1988 Bauer was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize and other notable honours including the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit.
The symposium also heard from members of the HEDP staff who outlined the implications of findings that emerged from a national research project conducted by HEDP in 2009 with teachers in English schools in relation to teaching about the Holocaust. Please find the links to the video recording of HEDP Symposium ‘Making Connections in Holocaust Eudcation: Scholarship, Research & Educational Practice’, 20 January 2010 below.
Part 1: Welcome and Introductions (Dr. Stuart Foster (Director, HEDP) and Professor Geoff Whitty (Director, Institute of Education). The Holocaust Education Development Programme Research and Findings (Kay Andrews and Paul Salmons).
Part 2: Keynote Lecture (Professor Yehuda Bauer)
Part 3: Questions and Answers with Professor Yehuda Bauer (Chaired by Ruth-Anne Lenga and Dr. Stuart Foster)
Part 4: Thanks and Concluding Remarks (Dr. Stuart Foster and Vanessa Ogden)
Please open the document below, to read the speech Professor Yehuda Bauer’s keynote address.