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Eve Kugler at Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre dinner with Sarah-Jane Burstein, Jewish Care Holocaust Survivors Centre and Outreach Coordinator. Pic: Grainge Photography
April 24, 2025, 9:52 pm
OPINION: How Eve Kugler changed the world
Karen Pollock recalls how the survivor with a rare story impacted young people in schools, footballers and politicians
By Karen Pollock
A Yom HaShoah event in Westminster
April 23, 2025, 12:32 pm
OPINION: Sometimes remembering Yom HaShoah feels like an act of resistance
As antisemitism rises, it takes renewed strength to stand together, writes Karen Pollock
By Karen Pollock
HET's Karen Pollock speaking to students in Auschwitz on the organisation's Lessons From Auschwitz project with UJS
January 27, 2025, 10:11 am
OPINON: 80 years on, the weight of memory grows heavier
Today's anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation is a stark reminder of the past—and the urgent duty to preserve it for the future.
By Karen Pollock
Lily Ebert speaking at a Holocaust Educational Trust dinner
September 13, 2024, 10:51 am
OPINION: Finding hope in a new generation
As we approach the anniversary of 7 October the words of the Hatikvah ring truer than ever, writes Karen Pollock
By Karen Pollock
A mural of Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh in Bergen, Norway, painted by the anonymous artist Töddel, July 2024. (Courtesy of Töddel)
August 8, 2024, 11:06 am
OPINION: Defiling Anne’s memory does nothing for Gaza
As the Anne Frank statue in Amsterdam is vandalized with "Free Gaza" for the second time in a month, it's tragic that we have to work so hard to protect her memory
By Karen Pollock
Testimony-360-at-school-Manfred-Goldberg-interacts-with-his-virtual-testimony. PR Handout - HET
June 20, 2024, 10:22 am
OPINION: The ‘miracle’ of using technology to safeguard the stories of Holocaust survivors
Manfred Goldberg is the virtual reality face of a revolutionary educational programming tool. He describes it as ‘close to magic’. HET's Karen Pollock couldn't agree more
By Karen Pollock
A man carries a tote bag showing a Swastika/Star of David design, struck through in red. © Amstel Adams/ Alamy Live News
May 2, 2024, 11:44 am
OPINION: Rejecting hate speech isn’t stifling Israel criticism; it’s fighting antisemitism
A swastika on the streets of London in 2024 is NOT a symbol of political protest. It is a symbol of genocide, racism and antisemitism, writes Karen Pollock
By Karen Pollock
Johnny Flynn as the young Nicholas Winton.
January 4, 2024, 1:15 pm
OPINION: Kindertransport legacy: Confronting antisemitism in today’s world
Some 85 years after Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 mostly Jewish children from Nazi persecution, the British government remains an unshakable ally of the Jewish community
By Karen Pollock
“There is a talk about clearing Hamas out of Gaza. Isn’t that a little bit like the Final Solution?”
November 7, 2023, 2:01 pm
OPINION: Mutation of anti-Jewish hatred from history’s shadows to today’s reality
Antisemitism survived the Nazi death camps and continues to blight our society, writes Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust.
By Karen Pollock
Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper stands besides his portrait in an exhibition at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, of 'Seven Portraits: Surviving the Holocaust'. Picture date: Monday January 24, 2022.
September 13, 2023, 12:10 pm
OPINION: A Rosh Hashanah mission for the future of Holocaust education
By the time new students complete secondary school, the Holocaust will likely have moved out of living memory. We must make sure these stories continue to be told, again and again, writes Karen Pollock
By Karen Pollock
June 16, 2023, 12:05 pm
OPINION: Sir Ben was a giant among men
Despite all he endured, Ben taught us all about resilience, tolerance and the crucial importance of educating future generations
By Karen Pollock
The national monument of Westerbork camp is a painfully simple reminder of the place's history.
January 25, 2023, 1:09 pm
OPINION: Remember the story of Steven and his tomatoes
Karen Pollock, CEO of Holocaust Educational Trust, recalls an extraordinary story, born of ordinariness, ahead of this week's Holocaust Memorial Day.
By Karen Pollock
Ziggy Shipper, by JENNY SAVILLE
January 18, 2023, 3:30 pm
OPINION: When I hear Zigi Shipper’s name, I smile
The beloved Holocaust survivor, who has died on his 93rd birthday, was a 'man of joy', writes Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust.
By Karen Pollock
HRH Her Majesty the Queen and HRH Prince Phillip visiting the former Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in 2015
September 9, 2022, 4:42 pm
OPINION: Her Majesty was humanity in action
Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, reflects on what the Queen meant to Holocaust survivors and all she did to secure their legacies.
By Karen Pollock
Freddie and Freya Knoller at Jewish Care's Holocaust Survivor's Centre Annual Dinner (© Blake Ezra Photography Ltd.)
February 4, 2022, 1:33 pm
OPINION: The great man lit up every room
Holocaust Educational Trust chief executive Karen Pollock pays personal tribute to centenarian survivor Freddie Knoller, who sadly passed away on the even of Holocaust Memorial Day 2022
By Karen Pollock
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