H.E.T @het.org.uk · 11/09/2026In Nazi-occupied Brussels, the Sephiha family gathered for prayer - preserving Jewish life and community in the face of persecution. This Rosh Hashana, we remember their story. Shana Tova to all those celebrating. 030
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 11/09/2026Apply before 9am on Monday to be our new Education Officer! You’ll deliver our educational programmes in schools across the UK and help create innovative, memorable content that supports students and teachers in learning about the Holocaust and antisemitism. Apply now: het.org.uk/about/vacancies 020
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 11/09/2026Wishing all those celebrating #RoshHashanah, the Jewish New Year, a shana tova u'metukah, a happy and sweet New Year! 011
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 05/09/2026Today is the 99th birthday of Holocaust Survivor Bronia Snow! Please #sendhersomelove for her special day! 010
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 04/09/2026Apply now to be our new Education Officer! You’ll deliver our educational programmes in schools across the UK, helping to ensure our content is innovative, memorable and supports students and teachers to learn about the Holocaust and antisemitism. Apply now: het.org.uk/about/vacancies 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 20/08/2026On this day in 1941, the Drancy internment and transit camp was established in France. 010
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 02/08/2026Today is Roma Genocide Remembrance Day, where we commemorate the Roma and Sinti people who were murdered by the Nazis. 021
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 22/06/2026Last week, more than 1,200 students from 24 schools across the UK and Ireland came together for an online session to hear Steven Frank BEM’s powerful testimony and learn more about the lived experience of being forced into ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe. 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 22/06/2026On this day in 1941, Operation Barbarossa began. This invasion of the Soviet Union by the Nazis would lead to the creation of the Bielski partisan group, led by the Bielski brothers. By the end of the war, the group had saved over 1,200 Jews. 020
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 26/05/2026Join us! We’re recruiting a Public Affairs Officer to support the Trust’s parliamentary and policy engagement work, helping to ensure the Holocaust remains central to the UK’s national consciousness. Find out more and apply here: het.org.uk/about/vacancies 021
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 18/05/2026Today is the 90th birthday of Holocaust survivor Gustav Botkai! Please #sendhimsomelove on his special day! Photo courtesy of The Association of Jewish Refugees and you can learn more about his life here: www.ajrrefugeevoices.org.uk/Refugee… 010
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 15/05/2026On this day in 1944, the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews began. Over 400,000 were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp in just two months. 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 13/05/2026We’re hiring for a People Operations Administrator to help support our people operations, HR processes and employee experience across the Trust. If you’re an organised HR professional looking to make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you. Find out more here: het.org.uk/about/vacancies 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 10/05/2026On this day in 1933, Nazi student groups carried out public burning of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state. 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 07/05/2026We are recruiting freelance Educators to support our Lessons from Auschwitz Project - a government-funded educational programme for post-16 students delivered across England, Scotland and Wales. Find out more and apply: het.org.uk/about/vacancies 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 07/05/2026Today in 1940, Lodz Ghetto (Litzmannstadt) was sealed. The Nazis enclosed 165,000 Jewish people in a space of 1.6 square miles, not knowing what would happen next or how long they would be kept there. Learn more about the ghettos with our free teaching resource: het.org.uk/ks4/ghettos 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 06/05/2026History teaches us, that when antisemitism goes unchallenged, words escalate into violence. 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 05/05/2026Today marks 81 years since American troops liberated Mauthausen concentration camp. 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 03/05/2026Our work is rooted in memory and education, and in this lies the responsibility that comes from understanding where antisemitism can lead when it is ignored, minimised, or tolerated. 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 02/05/2026"I never thought I’d again see the kind of violent antisemitism I experienced in my early years" - Holocaust survivor, Mala Tribich MBE 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 01/05/2026On this day in 1942, killings by gas began in Sobibór extermination camp. Between then and October 1943, at least 170,000 Jews were murdered there. 010
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 01/05/2026Read our Chief Executive, Karen Pollock CBE in the the i Paper: inews.co.uk/opinion/very-existence-…inews.co.ukThe very existence of Jews in Britain was attacked at Golders GreenIf the UK wants to stamp out this evil for good, it’s time for all of us to stand visibly and unapologetically with the Jewish community 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 30/04/2026"Why should it be that we as British Jews needs to worry about going about our daily lives?" Our Chief Executive, Karen Pollock CBE speaking on BBC News at Ten last night. 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 29/04/2026Our Chief Executive, Karen Pollock CBE, on today’s antisemitic attack in Golders Green 010
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 27/04/2026Feeling inspired by the London Marathon and want to take part next year? Want to fundraise for a worthy cause? Enter the public ballot before 4 pm on Friday, 1st May, and you could raise vital funds for the Holocaust Educational Trust! 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 19/04/2026Today is the anniversary of a heroic act of resistance by Youra Livschitz, and his two non-Jewish friends and the 115 lives they saved. 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 15/04/2026Our Chief Executive, Karen Pollock CBE, on the attempted arson attack on Finchley Reform Synagogue. 010
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 15/04/2026Today is the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Today, we remember the tens of thousands of Jews who were murdered there and all who survived against all odds, as well as the brave members of the British Armed Forces who liberated the camp. 010
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 13/04/2026At 7:00pm today, we will join the Jewish community in commemorating Yom HaShoah, the Jewish community’s day to remember the Holocaust. Watch the ceremony here: yomhashoah.org.uk 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 13/04/2026Tonight marks Yom HaShoah, the day the Jewish community comes together to remember the 6 million Jewish men, women and children murdered in the Holocaust. 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 11/04/2026Holocaust survivor Henri Obstfeld BEM turns 86 today! Send him your best wishes, and we'll pass them on. 120
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 07/04/2026Our Chief Executive, Karen Pollock CBE, on the news that Kanye West has been denied entry into the United Kingdom. 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 07/04/2026Today marks the commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Today we come together and remember all the victims. Learn more about the Rwandan Genocide here www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/c… 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 05/04/2026On Easter Sunday, we send our best wishes to all our supporters who will be marking and celebrating Easter today. 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 02/04/2026In April 1933, the Nazis carried out the first nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses. 030
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 01/04/2026Wishing all those celebrating, Chag Pesach Sameach! Happy Passover! 152
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 17/03/2026Last week, Gerald Stern spoke to Year 9 students at Walthamstow Hall School in Sevenoaks, sharing his reflections on his father’s escape of Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. Invite a speaker to your school: het.org.uk/education/outreach-programme/outreach-enquiry 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 17/03/2026Today is Holocaust survivor Simon Winston BEM’s 88th birthday. Please do send Simon some love on his special day! 010
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H.E.T @het.org.uk · 11/03/2026Our virtual Teacher Study Seminar features leading guest speaker Sarah Phillips Casteel and her new book ‘Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art’. Sign up here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...forms.office.comMicrosoft Forms 011
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 11/03/2026Black writers and artists have preserved these voices. This virtual Teacher Study Seminar explores how memoir, fiction, poetry, and art bring this hidden history to light. 100
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 11/03/2026During WWII, Black people in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were targeted with ostracism, forced sterilisation, and imprisonment, and these stories are often forgotten today. 110
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 10/03/2026On Thursday we'll be hosting a special session for schools where the child of a Holocaust survivor will explore why they want to share their family's experiences, its impact across generations, and why Holocaust memory still matters today. Find out more and register here: ow.ly/Z6es50YchEj 001
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 05/03/2026The Long Night by Ernst Israel Bonstein A moving reflection on a childhood marked by the Holocaust, sharing his experiences across seven concentration camps. From acts of courage and resistance to moments of unexpected kindness, his story reveals how humanity can survive even in the darkest times. 000
H.E.T @het.org.uk · 05/03/2026Born Survivors by Wendy Holden The incredible true story of three pregnant women sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau who defied the unimaginable by each giving birth to a child who survived. Among them is Eva Clarke, born after her mother’s transport to Mauthausen concentration camp. 100