Holocaust research & training
Emma continued a longstanding relationship with the Leeds-based Holocaust Survivors' Friendship Assocation as their freelance Research & Training Manager until she began maternity leave in July 2013. Emma worked with the Association's Volunteer Manager and a steering group of survivors to devise a training programme for 30 volunteers speakers to enable them to take the survivors' legacy into the future. Trained speakers are now available to go into schools, community groups and organisations to tell survivors' stories and ensure their message about the dangers of intolerance and racism reaches current and future generations.
As well as developing the training programme Emma helped develop the Association's website, which she was involved in creating as part of a previous project with the HSFA. The new content includes unique archive documents from the International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen in Germany and new filmed testimony with survivors. Four new survivor testimonies are now online at www.holocaustlearning.org/survivors, and a new Evidence section showcases copies of original archive material relating to each eprson's story.
The project is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. In 2011 Emma worked with the Assocation to research and write the Activity Plan and supporting materials for the successful Stage 2 bid.
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