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Hay Festival unveils free programme for schools


HAY Festival has revealed its free programme for schools for this spring’s edition, bringing writers and young people together online for a series of inspiring interactive activities and workshops.
The schools programme runs from May 24-28, ahead of the main programme running from May 26 to June 6.
Parents, teachers and young people can register for the free sessions now at hayfestival.org/schools.
Five sessions will be broadcast daily for pupils across KS1-4 with each event accompanied by free teaching materials and active learning activities, available to view live or on replay throughout, along with the festival’s full programme for schools archive, part-funded by Hay Festival Foundation. ....

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Holocaust stories must be told, but their popularity is deeply uncomfortable


Holocaust stories must be told, but their popularity is deeply uncomfortable
Liz Kessler
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As trends go, the Holocaust is perhaps not what you might think of as a “must-have” subject for books today. But check out the bestseller lists and you’ll see plenty of novels and biographies with Auschwitz in the title. It’s an inescapable, uncomfortable fact: the Holocaust is currently trendy.
Humans have always been fascinated by the macabre. A couple of hundred years ago, people would flock to watch public hangings. Today, you can go on Jack the Ripper tours. True crime documentaries and blockbuster movies are littered with brutality and violence. ....

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How a British couple took in a family of Jews from Austria during the Second World War


The letter to Gladys Jones arrived without fanfare - and probably without much hope of a reply.
It had been sent by a family she’d met just once on a Danube riverboat in Vienna five years earlier. 
A little boy’s shoe had threatened to muddy her skirt as he’d knelt up to get a better view, but she’d laughed it off and accepted his father’s invitation for coffee and a slice of Sachertorte (a rich Austrian chocolate cake) by way of apology.
On Gladys’s return to England, she’d sent a note thanking him for his hospitality. Then, one imagines, this middle aged wife of a Chester dentist considered the encounter no more than a souvenir of her 1934 holiday. ....

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