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Remembering Srebrenica unveils new online learning resources for teachers during coronavirus shutdown
Remembering Srebrenica has launched brand new online education resources for teachers to use during the unprecedented coronavirus school shutdown. With teachers across the country in need of quality online resources to fill entire timetables with remote learning, Remembering Srebrenica has this week added new free-to-use lessons to its website, increasing its educational output to 11 […]
Remembering Srebrenica Delivers Lessons from Srebrenica to Education Leaders
Leading figures in the world of education attended a Remembering Srebrenica delegation to learn about the consequences of hatred to pass on the lessons to students in the UK.
Aberdeen School Children Organise a Genocide Awareness Event
Students from three different schools across Aberdeen have been working together to learn the lessons from past genocides to create a better society. Having been on a ‘Lesson’s from Auschwitz’ visit, pupils organised an event to speak about their experiences of visiting the concentration camp, and to raise awareness of genocide. Remembering Srebrenica’s Partnerships Officer, Amra […]
Young Ambassadors’ achievements celebrated in Bradford
Over 100 young Srebrenica Ambassadors were celebrated at an awards ceremony this month to honour their work in bringing the lessons from Srebrenica to their schools and communities in the UK.
First Minister joins other party leaders in backing education pack on genocide
Remembering Srebrenica's education pack for the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence gained backing from the First Minister and four party leaders in Scotland.
Blackburn Central High School – Hate Crime Awareness Week Workshops
Students at Blackburn High School were challenged to think about how we can build a united community and learn the lessons from Srebrenica as part of Hate Crime Awareness Week.
Berkshire students to hear testimony of Srebrenica genocide survivor
Children at schools in Berkshire will get the opportunity to hear first-hand testimony from a survivor of the Srebrenica genocide next week.
Srebrenica Survivors Tour Bedfordshire
In April 2016, Resad Trbonja, a survivor of the siege of Sareyjevo and Nedžad Avdić, a survivor of the Srebrenica genocide, visited the UK for an Educational Tour of Schools. They visited 4 schools speaking about their experiences to students aged between 14 and 18. Resad spoke about the siege of Sarejevo and his experiences […]
Free education pack helps Scottish children learn lessons from Srebrenica
Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland’s Languages Dr Alasdair Allan MSP has launched Remembering Srebrenica’s free education pack that will allow teachers across the country to prepare thought-provoking lessons and help their students learn the lessons from the Srebrenica genocide.
Free education packs help children learn lessons from Srebrenica
Teachers in schools across England and Wales can prepare thought-provoking lessons over the coming school year and help their students learn the lessons from the Srebrenica genocide – thanks to a free education pack. This year marked the 20th anniversary of the genocide – the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War, […]
Former student inspires next generation
A former student has returned to her North London school to help a younger generation learn the lessons from Srebrenica.
Discovering Srebrenica – Izzie Shaw
Student Izzie Shaw, from Shropshire, travelled to Srebrenica on our educational visits programme. Here she recounts her experiences as a delegate on the Lessons from Srebrenica programme.
A harrowing but important read 👇 https://t.co/AkHWlxhagg
Throughout the Bosnian genocide, there were over 625 concentration camps operating that served as ways to humiliate, exterminate, and destroy Bosnian Muslims. In many of these places, the survivors haven’t been allowed to memorialize them for the genocidal tools they were. https://t.co/vFYz06Ro13
Today also marks the establishment of the Batković concentration camp; one that was operated from ‘92-‘96 and in which over 4,000 mainly Bosnian Muslims, as well as Croats, were detained in, tortured, and raped at the orders of the Serb army. Harrowing account of the conditions:
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