When the First Generation of survivors will not be able to tell their stories in person, who speaks for them?

Northern Holocaust Education Group’s [NHEG] Second and Subsequent Generation accredited speakers aim to ensure that future generations will continue to experience the life stories of victims of Nazi Persecution and the Holocaust in a way that is meaningful and relevant to the issues of today.  These accredited speakers provide a valuable enrichment resource – bringing the person to life.

Parts of the session will be interactive – please come and be prepared to contribute.  Ernie Hunter will share some recent research into current trends and approaches to Holocaust Education and we will discuss some common misunderstandings.

Ernie Hunter is a founder member and chair of NHEG.  He will explain how NHEG provides accredited speakers as an enrichment resource to schools, colleges and universities – and how to book an accredited speaker.

Ernie is a retired Accountant and Management Consultant who ran his own Europe-wide consultancy.  He is the son of a refugee German Jewish mother who actively confronted the Nazi regime, and a refugee German non-Jewish father who had to flee Germany as he was an active political opponent of the Nazi regime.

Ernie has been involved in Holocaust Education for over ten years in the UK and Germany.  Until Covid intervened Ernie returned annually to Germany to speak in German about his family both at schools and at the Museum of Christians and Jews in Laupheim.

The experiences of Ernie’s family of intolerance and hatred of the “other” in the Nazi period made him realise the continuing importance and relevance of Holocaust Education to standing up against antisemitism, Holocaust denial, racism of any kind and today’s genocides.

 

To book please fill out this form.  Please note bookings close at 12pm the day of the event.