She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) for her services to national state education and Holocaust Education (2013) and received an honorary doctorate from the University Hertfordshire (2018)
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Dame Helen Hyde DBE left Watford Grammar School for Girls after 29 years as the Headmistress. She was a recognised national leader and coached and mentored a number of new headteachers and leadership teams.
She gave up her headship as she felt she could no longer be a bystander. She had to take action to help and support others, for social justice no matter what race, colour or religion. She tries to challenge and encourage others to be active, to be an upstander and to work to improve knowledge and the life chances of others.
Helen Hyde
From the Introduction:
Helen Hyde
Every family has a story and all stories are important and need to be remembered. Remembering is a precious gift. It helps bring people alive. It is also a memorial for those who died so cruelly. It is important that we do not do the Nazis’ job for them and depersonalize those that were murdered or victimized. We must never see them as ‘victims in waiting or doomed’. Each one lost had a name and a future.
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