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Site-seeing: reflections on visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum with teenagers
Author(s): Richardson, Alasdair
Date: 2021
Topics: Holocaust Education, Educational Tours, Evaluation, Interviews, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Teenagers
Abstract: This paper considers how the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum is experienced by teenage visitors on organized visits with the Holocaust Educational Trust (UK). The findings presented are based on semi-structured interviews with twelve 17 year olds, exploring their emotional engagement with the sites and how they perceive and understand this emotional interaction. The findings suggest that young people experience their visit in a variety of ways, and that this is an incomplete and ongoing process in their learning. The paper raises a number of considerations for educators taking educational visits to the museum, to support pupils in their learning.
Touching distance: young people’s reflections on hearing testimony from Holocaust survivors
Author(s): Richardson, Alasdair
Date: 2021
Topics: Holocaust Survivors, Holocaust Education, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Schools: Non-Jewish
Abstract: This article explores young people’s experiences of hearing first-hand testimony from a Holocaust survivor during a government-funded educational programme in the UK. The study considers Holocaust Education in the UK and the prevalence of survivor speakers in classrooms. It then presents findings from 14 semi-structured interviews and 44 online surveys exploring young people’s experiences of hearing in-person testimony from a Holocaust survivor. Three themes emerge; that the experience of hearing from a survivor had been concrete, connecting and current for them. The article concludes with a consideration of the study’s implications for educators more widely and concludes by offering ways in which they can better support their students in receiving and carrying survivor testimony in different educational settings.