UCL Centre for Holocaust Education

Thanks to the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education (@uclholocaust.bsky.social) for inviting us to speak about the Lost Music of Auschwitz project!

For any KS3 music or history teachers, we've just published our free Holocaust Education Packs—more details here:
www.constella.org.uk/get-involved

Applications are open for our online ‘Holocaust in the Curriculum’ MA module which has been recognised by
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social

Places for teachers in England fully-funded by the Pears Foundation.
Deadline 27 Feb.
Info, FAQs & application at holocausteducation.org.uk/masters-modu...

Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨

#UCL200 #LoveUCL

Our Beacon School community marked Holocaust Memorial Day with purpose, integrity & innovation, seeking to both commemorate & educate, resulting in thoughtful, creative & deeply human responses to 2026 ‘Bridging Generations’ theme.

Visit HMD Gallery page: holocausteducation.org.uk/2026/02/03/s...

Applications are open for our online ‘Holocaust in the Curriculum’ MA module which has been recognised by
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social

Places for teachers in England fully-funded by the Pears Foundation.
Deadline 27 Feb.
Info, FAQs & application at holocausteducation.org.uk/masters-modu...

More examples of how HMD was marked across our Beacon Schools & alumni community...

#HtFMeUs student leaders, sharing their learning about Morris Malenicky with peers at The Lakes School
#LighttheDarkness at Highfields School
Assemblies & more at Adwick Outwood

Front page of Royal Historical Society blog post with image of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, photograph by Rudolph Simon, 2013, Wilkimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Text reads: "On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory' and abstract: In this post, Andy Pearce – Director of the Centre for Holocaust Education at UCL – considers the current levels of knowledge of the Holocaust among UK secondary school students. UCL studies, in 2016 and 2026, reveal a troubling and enduring divergence between popular understandings of the persecution and murder of Jews in Europe, in the 1930s and 1940s, and the findings of scholarly historical research. 27 January 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain. As Andy argues, prevalent and popular misperceptions risk being sustained if the Holocaust becomes a subject for remembrance and memory, rather than of history and historical scholarship. It is only though ‘more history’, shared widely and publicly, that we may seek to redress error, distortion and denial."

Also this week: "On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory" bit.ly/4t6wPx6

Dr Andy Pearce, Director of @uclholocaust.bsky.social, on the Society's blog. Andy's article introduces new work on Holocaust knowledge among UK secondary school pupils #Skystorians

'The Centre are proud to be collaborators & partners’ in RWBAs innovative & immersive enrichment project #HtFMeUs feat. Robert Rinder & families
holocausteducation.org.uk/htfmeus-an-i...
Teachers, join next online briefing, 2 Feb, 3.30pm to find out more.
nwetherall@rwba.ascendlearningtrust.org.uk

We are pleased to announce the second digest publication from our latest @uclholocaust.bsky.social research

It can be downloaded for free from: holocausteducation.org.uk/research/80-years/

@andypearce.bsky.social
@arthurjchapman.bsky.social
@amybraier.bsky.social
@eddorrell.bsky.social

Applications are open for our online ‘Holocaust in the Curriculum’ MA module which has been recognised by
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social

Places for teachers in England fully-funded by the Pears Foundation.
Deadline 27 Feb.
Info, FAQs & application at holocausteducation.org.uk/masters-modu...

'The Centre are proud to be collaborators & partners’ in RWBAs innovative & immersive enrichment project #HtFMeUs feat. Robert Rinder & families
holocausteducation.org.uk/htfmeus-an-i...
Teachers, join next online briefing, 2 Feb, 3.30pm to find out more.
nwetherall@rwba.ascendlearningtrust.org.uk

At St Laurence School, students involved in #HtFMeUs devised a tutor activity & briefing, sharing the Clein family & 'Bridging Generations' theme. 'We also had the unbelievable privilege of one of our Yr 13 students sharing his great grandmother’s incredible story of surviving the Holocaust'

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We continue to hear of more T&L & commemorative initiatives, events & experiences marking HMD this week.

For example, across our Beacon Schools network:
Hinde House have held assemblies, HMD PD lessons using Centre resources & #HtFMEUs doc, @holocaustmuseumuk.bsky.social visits & PE links.

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Applications are open for our online ‘Holocaust in the Curriculum’ MA module which has been recognised by
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social

Places for teachers in England fully-funded by the Pears Foundation.
Deadline 27 Feb.
Info, FAQs & application at holocausteducation.org.uk/masters-modu...

More compelling teaching & learning & commemorative initiatives, events & experiences took place today in schools marking HMD, & more will follow across the week.
A flavour of engagement across our Beacon Schools network includes:

Highfields School, Skegness Academy, Woodhey High School

Here also examples of today's Holocaust Memorial Day being marked:

Trinity Catholic High (its garden, & some of the shoes- whilst rest are on display in Westminster), Royal Wootton Bassett Academy (bridge of values & pledges, through PE, & assembly)

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We know powerful educational & commemorative initiatives, events & experiences took place today in schools to mark HMD, & more will follow across the week.
A flavour of the range of engagement across our Beacon Schools network includes:

Demeter House, Healing Academy, MEA & Lawn Manor Academy

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Misconceptions about the Holocaust persist among England's teenagers Students’ core knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust remains insecure, with many struggling to answer basic questions about what happened, to whom, where and when, finds new research from the U...

New research from @uclholocaust.bsky.social shows misconceptions about the Holocaust still persist among teens – though understanding has improved since 2016.

This provides compelling evidence to call for wider change and a national conversation on Holocaust education.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ja...

Applications are open for our online ‘Holocaust in the Curriculum’ MA module which has been recognised by
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social
Places for teachers in England fully-funded by the Pears Foundation.
Deadline 27 Feb.
Info, FAQs & application at holocausteducation.org.uk/masters-modu...

'The Centre are proud to be collaborators & partners’ in RWBAs innovative & immersive enrichment project #HtFMeUs feat. Robert Rinder & families
holocausteducation.org.uk/htfmeus-an-i...
Teachers, join next online briefing, 2 Feb, 3.30pm to find out more.
nwetherall@rwba.ascendlearningtrust.org.uk

"At a time when there is both information overload and a dissolving of truth, we have to help create rigorous public history."

@andypearce.bsky.social of @uclholocaust.bsky.social advocates for more critical thinking and cultural literacy.
blog.royalhistsoc.org/2026/01/27/o...

It was an honour in my dual capacity to hear again from Eva Clarke BEM @uclholocaust.bsky.social as we gathered in person/online to mark #HMD.
Our RWBA relationship with Eva is a longstanding one (as pictured), both a first & sec gen survivor - she is the embodiment of bridging generations.

The case for clearer Holocaust curriculum guidance Teaching about the Holocaust is not easy, and the evidence suggests teachers need more support

'Clearly, Holocaust education in schools is essential, especially in the current era of misinformation and disinformation. However, we now have compelling evidence that shows we need to revisit how and why the Holocaust is taught'

schoolsweek.co.uk/the-case-for...

How to teach about the Holocaust in the digital age To address the risk of children encountering misinformation online, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance has updated its recommendations for teaching and learning about the Holocaust

As young people encounter misinformation on and offline, how should we teach about the Holocaust?

1. Focusing on digital literacy
2. Explicitly teaching about antisemitism

Featuring research from @uclholocaust.bsky.social 👇
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

We are pleased to announce the second digest publication from our latest @uclholocaust.bsky.social research

It can be downloaded for free from: holocausteducation.org.uk/research/80-years/

@andypearce.bsky.social
@arthurjchapman.bsky.social
@amybraier.bsky.social
@eddorrell.bsky.social

We've distributed 100,000 copies of our textbook ‘Understanding the Holocaust: How & why did it happen?’ to more than 3,300 secondary schools. holocausteducation.org.uk/ks3-textbook/
Delivered FREE courtesy of the Pears Foundation this research-informed textbook is helping transform Holocaust T&L.

Humbled & privileged on this HMD to welcome survivor Eva Clarke BEM to the Centre.
We are grateful for this intimate opportunity for the team to hear she & her mothers story, & the vital work Eva does 'Bridging Generations'.
In 2019 Eva wrote a Centre blog: holocausteducation.org.uk/2019/01/23/h...

Today, on HMD RWBA joins in bridging generations: testimony is something we listen to & learn from together, guiding the choices our young people make & the communities they help build.
Memory becomes a bridge they choose to walk across, carrying its lessons into the world they are shaping

Front page of Royal Historical Society blog post with image of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, photograph by Rudolph Simon, 2013, Wilkimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Text reads: "On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory' and abstract: In this post, Andy Pearce – Director of the Centre for Holocaust Education at UCL – considers the current levels of knowledge of the Holocaust among UK secondary school students. UCL studies, in 2016 and 2026, reveal a troubling and enduring divergence between popular understandings of the persecution and murder of Jews in Europe, in the 1930s and 1940s, and the findings of scholarly historical research. 27 January 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain. As Andy argues, prevalent and popular misperceptions risk being sustained if the Holocaust becomes a subject for remembrance and memory, rather than of history and historical scholarship. It is only though ‘more history’, shared widely and publicly, that we may seek to redress error, distortion and denial."

"On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory" bit.ly/4t6wPx6

Dr Andy Pearce, Director of @uclholocaust.bsky.social, writes today on the RHS blog.

#Skystorians