June 2017
Yom Hashoah 2017: A Day to Remember The Holocaust
Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, is observed every year. It is a day of commemoration of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of actions carried out by Nazi Germany. [...]
EUROCLIO Director and HKHTC Director Discussed Educational Approaches in The Hague
In late May 2017, HKHTC's Director of Education Simon Li and the Director of European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO) Jonathan Evan-Zohar met together in The Hague to discuss strategies that can help history educators in Asia [...]
Director of Education Paid Tribute to Holocaust Victims at Westerbork Camp on Liberation Day
As the Amsterdam-based Anne Frank House's Visiting Educator, HKHTC's Director of Education Simon Li visited the Westerbork camp, which was a WWII Nazi detention and transit camp in Hooghalen, on the Liberation Day (Dutch: [...]
Student Actors and Actresses of “Auschwitz Lullaby” Joined HKHTC Workshop
In April 2017, secondary students from Yew Chung International School (YCIS) came to the HKHTC resource centre to participate in a workshop delivered by Director of Education Simon Li on the Auschwitz concentration camp. This [...]
Director of Education Simon Li to Serve as Anne Frank House’s Visiting Educator
HKHTC continues to broaden its reach. HKHTC Director of Education Simon Li has served as a visiting educator at the Anne Frank House inAmsterdam this spring. During his academic visit, Mr Li and the in-house [...]
Holocaust Survivor Micha Gelber Met with Director of Education Simon Li at Rotterdam’s Memorial for Jewish Children
The Joods Kindermonument is a children memorial site in Rotterdam which commemorates the deaths of 686 Jewish children who were killed by the Nazis. In Spring 2017, Director of Education Simon Li (Visiting Educator, [...]