ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that the Holocaust Educational Trust’s ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ programme should be understood as facilitating a mode of pilgrimage. First envisaged as one-day journeys to Auschwitz for British-Jewish communities, it evolved into a broader programme under the Trust and then grew enormously in scale with the introduction of government funding in the 2000s. Drawing on details of this history and wider scholarship on Auschwitz as a pilgrimage site, attention is given to the ceremonial aspects of ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ and the ways in which it balances educational content with an emphasis on transformative witnessing.
