Karen Pollock
Karen Emma Pollock CBE is a British writer, activist and chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET).
Early life[]
Pollock was politically active while at university, engaging with the National Union of Students and the Union of Jewish Students.[1]
Career[]
She was Director of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism.
She later joined the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) in 1998 as Director of Communications. Pollock was promoted to chief executive of the organisation in 2000.[1] One campaign led by Pollock was asking the government to recognise British people who had saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust.[2] Pollock was praised by politicians across the spectrum for 'Lessons from Auschwitz', a program that has enabled thousands of sixth form and university students to visit Auschwitz concentration camp.[3][4]
Alongside HET, she is involved with the anti-fascist organisation Searchlight and the London Jewish Forum, as well as the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust of which she was a founding trustee.[1][3]
She has written for The Guardian, Jewish News, The Jewish Chronicle, and The Huffington Post and gave a TED talk entitled 'The search for humanity in the Holocaust' for TEDxDurhamUniversity 2016.[5]
She represented British Jews at the United Nations World Conference against Racism in 2001 and 2009.[1]
She is a vice-president of the Jewish Leadership Council.[2]
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to education, specifically about the Holocaust,[6] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to Holocaust education.[7][8]
References[]
- ^ a b c d "Karen Pollock | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
- ^ a b "Karen Pollock MBE". The Jewish Leadership Council. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
- ^ a b "Holocaust Memorial Day". hansard.parliament.uk. 18 Jan 2018. Retrieved 20 Jan 2019.
- ^ Rudgard, Olivia (2018-01-16). "Student leaders to be taken to Auschwitz in bid to combat campus anti-SemitismÂ". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ "TEDxDurhamUniversity | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ "New Year Honours 2012". The London Gazette. 31 Dec 2011. Retrieved 20 Jan 2019.
- ^ "No. 63135". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 2020. p. B10.
- ^ Phillips, Aleks (11 October 2020). "Numerous Holocaust educators among those recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
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