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]

gollark: I mean, the policies relating to COVID-19 are controlled by governments, which presumably should have *some* plan.
gollark: I propose that we all push in the opposite direction to tectonic plate motion.
gollark: Apparently. Or at least home breadmaking, because she did it first and is now... finding it harder to get ingredients.
gollark: Firing your pandemic response team a while before a pandemic is at least not as stupid as doing it during one.
gollark: I blame some sort of weird interaction between insurance companies, regulation/the government, consumers of healthcare services, and the companies involved in healthcare.

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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