"This year's Fellowship programme is outstanding... [It is leading to] the creation of a genuine community of enquiry among Fellows and is a highly effective model for continuous professional development. It combines updates on Holocaust education from international academics at the cutting edge of their field with exposure to expert pedagogy, and the practical application of it in individual projects that also reflect the influence of shared ideas and experience. The Fellowship will continue to affect the teaching style of individual Fellows for long after this particular programme is finished."
Andrew Wrenn, History Adviser for Cambridgeshire and independent evaluator of the 2006-7 Fellowship programme

"Without a doubt the most important Holocaust teacher training programme in Europe today."
David Metzler, Yad Vashem, Israel

"I was very impressed by the creativity of the participants. During the workshops, they did not only interpret and use the historical documents in the ways in which I suggested, but also gave me new ideas how to deal with the material."
Dr Wolf Kaiser, House of the Wannsee Conference, Germany

"The Imperial War Museum Fellowship in Holocaust Education is an outstanding example of professional development at its very best. Dedicated and inspired teachers interact with historians and teaching experts in an exciting environment that ultimately produces better educators and more challenging lessons. It has been an incredible honour for me to be involved with such an exemplary programme and with such fascinating educators."
Stephen Feinberg, Director of National Outreach, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

‘I have found the Fellowship programme the most challenging personal development session I have ever undertaken... It has been delivered with sensitivity and humanity in addition to being intellectually stimulating. My perception of this brutal history has changed constantly... This Fellowship has enriched and informed my teaching practice and will continue to do so as I process and reflect on this unique shared experience not only as an educator but also as an individual.’
Grant Rogers

‘The Fellowship has greatly contributed to my own personal development both as a teacher of history and as an individual... It has inevitably led to a continued desire to pursue my work and a yearning for more knowledge and understanding in this vast subject.’
Sarah Halfpenny

‘The Fellowship has provided me with lasting insights on a first-hand basis into the events of the Holocaust. As an accredited ‘additional inspector for equal opportunities’ with OfSTED, I am now in a strong position to use my widespread experience as a former head teacher/senior adviser/ teacher-trainer to influence curriculum-related thinking and development in the future – using this knowledge base and its networks.’
Sa’ad Khaldi

‘The Fellowship programme enabled a development of understanding of the pedagogic issues surrounding Holocaust Education. What I wasn’t prepared for, and I am not sure anything can prepare one for this, was the intense emotional response that this material can provoke in oneself as presenter and in an audience.’
Neil Herrington

‘I did feel intimidated at the start as the history I studied at school stopped with Gladstone and I read Classics at university. Not now. A teacher is a teacher but is also a learner.’
Louise Ginnings

‘Being part of the Fellowship programme has been an unforgettable privilege and has profoundly affected the way I think about the Holocaust. The high quality lectures have provided a wealth of thought provoking information and materials which have stimulated my thinking on the subject, made me eager to gain more extensive knowledge, and inspired me to carry out more in depth research into the subject.’
Denize Morris

‘The Fellowship has furthered my own learning in ways I would not have thought possible. I have rediscovered the joy of learning about a subject whilst also feeling I have just scraped the surface of what there is to know... I also feel as though I have questioned myself and my approaches to teaching, indeed to life, more in the past year than for a long time.’
Helen Sayles

‘It has been an honour to have been part of the Imperial War Museum Fellowship... I feel very proud to have become part of such a caring community of individuals who are all dedicated to developing Holocaust Education. Becoming a Fellow of the Imperial War Museum in Holocaust Education is one of the most important achievements of my life.’
Mark Woodward

‘I have gained so much from the Fellowship it is hard to put into words. My own knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust has developed significantly, and I have learned a great deal about how I can work with students creatively and inspirationally... I have now got the confidence to trust students to follow their own lines of enquiry and allow them to express themselves creatively and emotionally in the classroom.’
Zoë Yacoub

‘The Fellowship has been a remarkable experience. It has challenged me intellectually and emotionally... It has forced me to re-examine my educational vision and values and to question deeply about how we educate in a meaningful way for a better future.’
Susy Stone

‘I have greatly increased my knowledge of the history and extent of the Holocaust as well as the resources available for further study and teaching’
Angela Goldstein

‘This is an example of continuing professional development at its best. I have completed the Fellowship feeling inspired to continue to campaign for high level Holocaust Education, and empowered by my new level of understanding of this unique subject.’
Zoe Bowden

‘The Fellowship has been a life-changing experience... [It] has encouraged me to re-assess my life and it has put into perspective the things that are important.’
Karen van Coevorden

‘Being an IWM Fellow has been a tremendous privilege. Not only has it increased my knowledge, it has encouraged me to look at the Holocaust in new ways which will assist in my work as a teacher trainer.’
Stewart Bennett

‘I already had in-depth knowledge but the Fellowship has made me completely rethink the meaning of the Holocaust, and generated a mass of ideas for new approaches and materials.’
Pauline Collier

‘I have gained a greater pedagogical understanding of how to teach the Holocaust and from a substantive point of view I have broadened my knowledge… From a personal point of view the Fellowship has helped me evaluate and redefine my own long term goals and objectives. I have every intention in contributing to research and development of genocide education for I regard it of such significance.’
Sarah Halfpenny

‘The Imperial War Museum’s Fellowship programme has contributed to my personal development as a Holocaust educator and beyond... As educators we should always look at our own work from different perspectives. We should re-examine the Holocaust over and over again, as we are responsible for giving our students opportunities to learn about this history and to reconsider what it means for them.’
Piet van Ledden

‘The lectures, the visit to Israel and teaching materials that the Fellowship provided enabled me to understand and draw on many of the less obvious themes of the Holocaust in my teaching sessions and to bring some students to consider not only the significance of the history of these events but also their relevance to today’s society.’
Pamela Marre

‘Going through a lot of detailed work and reflection has made me much more aware of the complexity of the issues and the culpability and involvement of many groups and individuals. This has also led to an awareness of the deeply political nature of the Holocaust and, like it or not, Holocaust Education. Participation in the Fellowship has reinforced to me the impact and continuing danger of antisemitism in particular and historically rooted prejudice in general.’
Alistair Ross

‘The Fellowship has provided me with high-level opportunities to learn and to gain further knowledge of Holocaust Education, and to benefit greatly from the specialist speakers’ knowledge and approaches to teaching the Holocaust.’
Caroline Slifkin

‘I feel far more comfortable with the history of the Holocaust. This is particularly true in the case of the main issues relating to causation, motivation of perpetrators, victims, bystanders and rescuers, resistance in all its manifestations, and the attitudes of the Allies and the churches.’
Jeremy Michelson

‘I have learnt an enormous amount. I have found the Fellowship invaluable, in particular the intense learning weeks in London and Israel have added hugely to my knowledge of this topic and the methods of teaching it… The Fellowship has been far more than an INSET, it has been exciting, intense and enriching. I have been inspired both by experts and by my fellow educators who are as passionate about teaching this topic as I am.’
Mandy Wax

‘[The Fellowship] has given me the impetus for developing more areas of my knowledge and the chance to interact with interested and enthusiastic colleagues who themselves are a wealth of knowledge. The variety of venues, presenters and projects has stimulated my own learning, and as such, has raised the profile of Holocaust Education in many ways: within my department, my faculty, across subjects, within individual students, and my colleagues at school. Without a doubt, it has been the most intensive but rewarding professional development and a programme that I feel very privileged to be involved in.’
Lisa Fahey

‘The Fellowship has changed my life... Professionally, it has given me the confidence to be able to say ‘I know about this issue’ but still challenges me to find out more... Personally, it has challenged my own constructs about myself and my life... The Fellowship has widened my horizons.’
Linda Asquith