Schools in the UK have withdrawn from education run by the Anne Frank Trust due to 'community tensions' following the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The charity has said three schools have postponed their education programmes since Hamas launched terror attacks on Israel on October 7.
The trust teaches 9 to 15-year-olds about Anne Frank, the Holocaust, prejudice and antisemitism.
It comes as the world prepares to remember the six million Jews that were killed by the Nazis on Holocaust Remembrance Day this Saturday, January 27.
The Anne Frank Trust reached 119,000 young people in over 800 schools across Britain in 2023.
Chief executive Tim Robertson said despite the three schools pulling out since the war started, their overall participant numbers have increased since this period last year.
He said the charity had not found it necessary to make any major changes to its curriculum as a result of October 7, but he told the Jewish Chronicle 'we've provided extra training and support for our staff'.
He also said in the wake of the attacks it was putting more 'emphasis on some key elements of Anne Frank's story' such as her sister Margot who longed to move to what was then British Palestine, and the fact that Anne's best friend Hannah Goslar rebuilt her life in Israel after surviving Bergen Belsen.
The charity also announced today that Her Majesty The Queen (formerly HRH The Duchess of Cornwall), has become the first Royal Patron of the Anne Frank Trust UK.
