Supporting the Centre

Projects

Below is a list of several projects which require funding, to which you are welcome to contribute if you would like to donate to a specific fund.

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Drawing Lessons from the Holocaust and the Transatlantic Slave Trade:

Programme for Young People at Risk of Gun and Knife Crime

February 2007: The Holocaust Centre has been awarded £3,000 by Renaissance East Midlands, Museums, Library, Archives Partnership (MLA) under the Bicentenary programme of the abolition of the slave trade. 

This funding will enable the first-phase development of Drawing Lessons from the Holocaust and the Transatlantic Slave Trade – highly visual resource materials drawing connections between transatlantic enslavement and the Holocaust.

Themes

This project will highlight how the slave trade has resonance with the dehumanisation process during the Holocaust and other genocides.  It will explore themes such as:

• loss of human rights
• isolation and segregation
• the perceived value of life
• the role of resistance and rescuers
• denial of culture and language
• loss of identity
• the impact on slavesand on forced labourers during the Holocaust
• the motivation and aims of the Holocaust and Slave Trade
• voices that spoke up against Nazism and the horrors of slavery
• issues of restorative justice

Outcome

Young people will work with these themes and draw links with their own world, creating an understanding about the damaging effects of violence and abuse.  This will challenge the way they perceive their world and empower them to take a more positive role in society.

Audience

Supporting Communities in Nottingham: This initiative focuses on African/Caribbean young people aged 13 - 19, living in or frequenting the St Anns, The Meadows and Radford areas of Nottingham.  These young people are ‘at risk’ and have often had a range of negative life experiences, including being involved in/ on the margins of drug-related crime, anti-social behaviour, serious violent crime, being excluded from school and college, often with low levels of educational attainment, coming from low-income families andhaving low levels of self-esteem and a poor sense of identity.

Permanently excluded children from Broxtowe College: This mixed-ethnic group consists of 65 students, aged 13-16, who are permanently excluded from school. They exhibit aggressive behaviourandhave ADHD and mild autism in some cases.

 

Partners

Nottinghamshire Police Gun Crime Education Strategy Team

Supporting Communities

Vision

Rendezvous for Victory

Nottingham City Education

Funding

Further funding will be sought to implement this initiative fully and develop resources and programmes suited to this particular audience.

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Project: The Primary Learning Centre

This exciting project will bring Holocaust Education to an even younger audience - to children as young as nine. The main construction work required is now nearly complete, and the next phase will progress when the required funding is in place. Sincere thanks go to all those who have supported this remarkable initiative so far, including AJR, Austrian National Fund, Elaine & Neville Blond Foundation, Camelot Foundation, Claims Conference, Mr V.Cohnheim, Susan Finer, Bernard Grunberg, Heritage Lottery Fund, Miss Z Husserl, Joanna Millan, Simone Prendergast, Ann & David Susman, Tudor Trust, Tolerance Education Trust.

2007 Update: Funding is required for the next phase of the project. Please call us for more details.

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Project: Youth Education Training Programme

Description: The UK Holocaust Centre's Youth Education Training Programme is designed to maximise the learning experience of students visiting the centre as part of the scheme. Each one-day session involves up to 100 young people in a highly focussed environment where they are confronted by the challenge of the Holocaust, given the opportunity and space to reflect on its meaning for today, and engage face to face with a survivor of those tragic events. While the students are expected to contribute towards the cost of the programme, it is heavily subsidised.

Cost: To enable an additonal 12,000 students to be catered to in a year, £42,000 would be required. To sponsor refurbishment of exhibition to cater to current needs, please contact us to discuss.

2007 Update: Funding for the reprinting of student workbooks and other support materials, and updating of the Holocaust Centre's website to support off-site learning is needed. Please call us for more details of current projects and funding needs.

For details of the project, click here

If you feel you can support this project in any way, please click here

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Project: Film/Publishing Department

Description: The Holocaust Centre's planned Film Department and Publishing Department will enable the centre to create and continue developing an immensely valuable range of films on the Holocaust and related issues, including the recording of survivor testimony for posterity. Two films - Wasted Lives and the Centre's introductory video - have already been created by the Centre, demonstrating its capability to create outstanding film resources that break new ground in generating awareness and providing tools for education. The Film Department would make this process infinitely faster and more cost-effective, making possible the development of film resources that under present circumstances could not be considered.

Cost: To set up the film department, create the first three planned films and support the interviewing of 50 Holocaust survivors, the project will cost a total of £73,535.

2007 Update: To upkeep and maintain the quality of the Centre's publishing activities, continued support is required. Please speak to us for current projects.

For details of the project, click here.

If you feel you can support this project in any way, please click here.

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