RWBA's Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Programme (HGP)

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Take 2 mins to work through a real-life online safety scenario — not to find a “right answer”, but to pause, reflect, & spark important conversations about keeping children safe in a digital world.

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To mark National Online Safety Day (Tues 10 Feb), Safeguarding Scenarios are offering a free national survey exploring confidence & attitudes around online safeguarding.

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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...

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

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

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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Yr11 @RWBA are exploring how we bridge generations by recognising both the shared threads & the distinct contexts of Leon Greenman, Karl‑Heinz Kusserow & Dydine Umunyana. Their experiences of persecution were different, yet each speaks to the cost of hatred & the courage it takes to resist it.

Yr10 @RWBA are bridging generations through testimony, poetry & the arts, via Zigi Shipper, Pierre Seel, Abdulah Sidran & Smajo Beso. Each story shows how speaking, writing or creating can challenge injustice & inspire change, recognising how learning can build a bridge of empathy & fight hate.

RWBA joins #LightTheDarkness: a single candle 'Bridging Generations' this Holocaust Memorial Day, is a light of memorial, a reminder of what we learn when we listen together, what we remember & what we carry forward.

Yr9 @RWBA are exploring how we bridge generations by tracing the paths of Laura Varon, Władysław Bartoszewski & Adrien Niyonshuti. Each story carries a different rhythm of loss, resistance & renewal. Our students recognise their strength & humanity & consider how this helps shape choices today.

'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

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.

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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/

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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.

This HMD, #HtFMeUs thanks Angela, Rob, Bernie, Louisa, Natalie & Noemie for 'Bridging Generations' & supporting our project, schools & communities.
We remember the Malenicky, Lewin, Federmann, Salomonson & Koenig families, & the stories that help us learn, remember, challenge hate & be kind.

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#HtFMeUs - #HtFMeUs HMD 2026 Bridging Generations Holocaust Memorial Day is held on the 27th January each year. This day remembers the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust and commemorates the millions of other people murdered in more recen...

Schools: please share how you’re marking HMD on Basecamp so we can learn from one another.

Remember, our HMD linked project materials can be found: www.htfmeus.co.uk/htfmeus-hmd-...

Learn more about the project: www.htfmeus.co.uk

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Wonderful to hear how HMD is being marked at LMA. Mr B has reported how well assemblies are going & today ran a preparatory session with group exploring Bernie's #HtFMeUs journey, w/ great bio poem outcomes. On Friday I will be delighted to support the group with a Bridging Generations workshop day.

The whole school listened in silence to Mr R deliver a very powerful RWBA assembly marking HMD.
Yr 11 in person, all other years groups remotely, watching live.
Informative, moving, combining education & reflection.
Work will continue in activate tasks in lessons today & ilearn this week.

On Holocaust Memorial Day, RWBA Yr8 have been working & reflecting through the #powerofsport, & collectively built a bridge of values & pledges, & then added sun, rays & light.
Thankyou so much RWBA #TeamPE for your innovation, engagement & sharing powerful stories.

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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

'On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory'
a @royalhistsoc.org guest blog by Centre's @andypearce.bsky.social: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2026/01/27/o...

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Grateful to Mr R for leading today's RWBA whole school HMD assembly. Powerfully remembering Eva Schloss, Anne Frank, sharing Bernie Graham, Smajo Beso, the Hardaga & Kabilio families stories, & words of Robert Rinder as we reflected on 'Bridging Generations'.

What bridge will you help build?

#HtFMeUs - #HtFMeUs HMD 2026 Bridging Generations Holocaust Memorial Day is held on the 27th January each year. This day remembers the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust and commemorates the millions of other people murdered in more recen...

Schools: please share how you’re marking HMD on Basecamp so we can learn from one another.

Remember, our HMD linked project materials can be found: www.htfmeus.co.uk/htfmeus-hmd-...

Learn more about the project: www.htfmeus.co.uk

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This HMD, #HtFMeUs thanks Angela, Rob, Bernie, Louisa, Natalie & Noemie for 'Bridging Generations' & supporting our project, schools & communities.
We remember the Malenicky, Lewin, Federmann, Salomonson & Koenig families, & the stories that help us learn, remember, challenge hate & be kind.

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“Yr8 @RWBA are exploring what it means to bridge generations by holding together stories from different times & contexts: Janusz Korczak, Helga Gross & Sharif Barko. Their experiences weren’t the same, yet each reveals something about dignity, courage & the choices people face. #HMD

As HMD2026 nears, RWBA will work to bridge generations through stories that shape how we think, feel & act.
This week isn’t just remembrance; it’s a bridge our young people help build: carrying memory forward w/ curiosity, compassion & hope, inspired by voices of Zigi Shipper & Eva Schloss & others

Fascinating to join second of @uclholocaust.bsky.social webinars on latest research.
We look forward to reading the digest when published tomorrow, but great reflections today from @andypearce.bsky.social, Dr Becky Hale, teachers Vanessa & Francis from St Laurence & Woodhey & @tgplawson.bsky.social

Yr7 @RWBA are Bridging Generations w/ stories of Anne Frank, Eva Schloss, Karl Stojka & Fr Marcel Uwineza. As they study, listen & reflect this HMD they’re reminded Anne once wrote 'how wonderful it is that nobody need wait to improve the world', realising what it means to carry that hope forward.

As HMD2026 nears, RWBA will work to bridge generations through stories that shape how we think, feel & act.
This week isn’t just remembrance; it’s a bridge our young people help build: carrying memory forward w/ curiosity, compassion & hope, inspired by voices of Zigi Shipper & Eva Schloss & others