Karen Pollock

Karen Pollock MBE is a British writer, activist and chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET). She was awarded an MBE in 2012 New Year Honours for services to education, specifically about the Holocaust.[1]

Early life

Pollock was political while at university, engaging with the National Union of Students and the Union of Jewish Students.[2]

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.[2] One campaign led by Pollock was asking the government to recognise British people who had saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust.[3] Another, 'Lessons from Auschwitz', has enabled thousands of sixth form and university students to visit Auschwitz concentration camp: Pollock was praised by politicians across the spectrum for her advocacy role.[4][5]

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.[2][4]

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.[6]

She represented British Jews at the United Nations World Conference against Racism in 2001 and 2009.[2]

She is a vice-president of the Jewish Leadership Council.[3]

References
  1. "New Year Honours 2012". The London Gazette. 31 Dec 2011. Retrieved 20 Jan 2019.
  2. "Karen Pollock | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  3. "Karen Pollock MBE". The Jewish Leadership Council. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  4. "Holocaust Memorial Day". hansard.parliament.uk. 18 Jan 2018. Retrieved 20 Jan 2019.
  5. 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.
  6. "TEDxDurhamUniversity | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2019-01-20.


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