Northampton University’s innovation research team will be conducting an ongoing study into the nature and impact of our engagement in schools around the UK...
Amongst other funded initiatives (please enquire to find out if your school can qualify for a bursary) we are delighted to announce that, thank to funding from MKCF we will be reaching over 3,500 students across the city of Milton Keynes in the coming academic year. This funding will ensure that every young person turning 13 years old in the city of Milton Keynes will have experienced Kindness and an accompanying educational program focusing on the history of the Holocaust and applied understanding of its implication in our own communities and lives.
If you are a secondary school interested in engaging in this core educational work, please get in touch with us as there are a number of ways we can make this happen for you.
We are delighted to announce that our partnership with the AJR goes from strength to strength. This year we have funding to work with SIX theatres / arts venues to bring in Kindness for their community to mark HMD / Yom HaShoah. In addition, funding from the AJR will allow us to offer a schools’ matinee event allowing up to 30 new schools to access ‘Kindness’ with full funding that pays for their transport to the venue and a full education day at their school to follow up learning.
If you are a community theatre or venue interested in hosting an event for the public and partner schools, please get in touch; we would love to work with you.
Throughout this past year Northampton University’s innovation research team has been conducting an ongoing study into the nature and impact of our engagement in schools around the UK. Taking a mixed methodological approach to exploring ‘Kindness: A Legacy of the Holocaust’ as an example of our theatre work as mediated testimony as an alternative to in person survivor testimony we are looking forward to the outcome of this case study in the coming weeks.
A number of our partner schools participated in the extended program and created some incredibly special and meaningful performances and assemblies that were shared with many hundreds more students and members of the public for their own Holocaust Remembrance Day events, whilst the students engaged in dynamic workshops, research and built knowledge and understanding that we hope will stay with them long beyond the confines of this project.
We have just submitted a bid to continue working with Northampton University’s team to study the impact of our work as empathetic and pro-social engagement and how it can help counter division and foster changed attitudes towards others as our young people and communities face ever more overt challenges with antisemitism, islamophobia, anti-traveller and immigrant prejudices in their communities. We are always looking for more partners and opportunities to bring this work directly into communities as well as our core schools’ work so please do get in touch if this aspect of our work is of particular interest to you.
"Our grandfather Harrys story is one which cannot be described in very few words. It is one which will always captivate and provide inspiration every time it is told. It is not only a story of survival, but also a story of perseverance and dedication to one's faith. His story has been told in many forms; on TV, in writing as well as countless testimonies our Grandfather has done throughout the years with the IWM, BBC etc. His work has inspired hundreds if not thousands of people to study the events of the Holocaust and allow them to continue to preserve the memory of the 6 million and more Jewish people who perished at the hands of the Nazis."
Voices of the Holocaust have worked with survivors before to tell their experiences in the Shoah. They use the medium of theatre to captivate audiences young and old in educating them on the horrors of what went on not just only in the camps, but in life before and after the war. Voices of the Holocaust have added the feeling of reality to these productions that any movie or book just cannot express. We have full confidence in them that they will transform Harry’s story into what we can only describe as a work of art on stage. We as his grandchildren, see this as a continuation of his legacy and his story living on hopefully through countless generations. Our wish is that our grandfather's story will continue to educate and inform future generations on the horrors and injustice of the Holocaust. Carrying over his legacy is a tough task in itself, but to carry it over with the same passion he has had when speaking it, will be even more of a challenge.
Our source of inspiration and motivation has always been rooted in his story; because even in his darkest times in the camps, he always said the Shema prayer before he went to sleep. Harry has always proven that even when you are suffering the most, you always stick to your foundation of belief and hope. We hope that the Voices of the Holocaust can make these emotions come to life and are looking forward to seeing the new shape that Harry's story will take to educate and engage thousands more and for years to come.
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