Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Helen McEntee, has announced a €100,000 contribution to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation to support the development of online visits to the Memorial Site for secondary school students in Ireland.
The programme will reach more than 600 Irish schools and aims to strengthen historical awareness among younger generations to ensure they grasp the murderous scale of the Holocaust, and they reflect on ways we can prevent it from occurring again.
The online guided visits are delivered through the platform “Auschwitz. In Front of Your Eyes”.
The tours are conducted live. In addition, the educator uses multimedia materials, archival photographs, artworks, documents, and testimonies of Survivors. The application also enables interaction with the guide and the opportunity to ask questions.