This is a case study from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust focusing on the town of Hadamar which played a central role in Nazi programmes of discrimination.
HMDT are delighted to present a variety of activities and creative, practical opportunities that will allow your students to engage with this year's theme - Keep the memory alive by examining whose memory we are keep alive and how we can keep memories alive.
More resources can be found here: www.hmd.org.uk/education
Using the Holocaust Memorial Day 2014 theme of journeys, this assembly introduces the Holocaust to your pupils through the stories of Bob and Ann Kirk, who came to Britain on the Kindertransport.
More resources available here: http://hmd.org.uk/news/our-2014-resources-educators
This assembly on Holocaust Memorial Day has been designed for students in Years 5 and 6, aged nine to 11, and would ideally take place on Holocaust Memorial Day itself - 27 January. It explores the themes of HMD through the life story of child survivor Joan Salter.
For more resources for Holocaust Memorial Day please see: www.hmd.org.uk/education
With classroom activities for all students aged 7-18, across a variety of subjects, this lesson plan is for any teacher who would like to teach the Holocaust in conjunction with Holocaust Memorial Day, and the 2014 theme of Journeys.
More lesson plans and assemblies on the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and subsequent genocides can be found here:
http://hmd.org.uk/news/our-2014-resources-educators
An inspiring way to teach the Holocaust through Art. Activities focus on degenerate art , banned by the Nazis, art looted by the Nazis, and art created as a response to the Holocaust.
We hope you will use this to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2014.
An EYFS resource to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2013. The focus for HMD 2013 is community and friendship
If you need any further advice on using the resources please contact our Education Officer
education@hmd.org.uk
This presentation was produced to work with the poem 'First They Came' for HMD 2012. It is a multi-sensory experience.
Please do let us know how you use these activities by telling us about it here: http://hmd.org.uk/events/add-event and select the box &'invited guests only&';.
This assembly on Holocaust Memorial Day has been designed for students in Years 7, 8 and 9, aged 11 to 14, and would ideally take place on Holocaust Memorial Day itself - 27 January. It focuses on the stories of David Berger, who was shot in Lithuania in 1941, and child survivor of the Holocaust Joan Salter.
For more resources for Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 please see: www.hmd.org.uk/education
This powerpoint presentation can be used in conjuction with the KS3/4 Assembly scripts and notes to deliver a commemorative assembly on the theme of Communities Together: Build a Bridge for Holocaust Memorial Day 2013
If you need any further advice on using the resources please contact our Education Officer
education@hmd.org.uk
Activity based on 'Frist They Came' by Martin Niemoller.
Please do let us know how you use these activities by telling us about it here: http://hmd.org.uk/events/add-event and select the box &'invited guests only&';.
In our eagerness to engage with a new story it can be easy to overlook the title page of a book but observant readers of the first edition of John Boyne’s award winning novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006) will be aware that the full title is The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – a fable. A fable is a teaching tool, a fictional narrative with an edifying or instructional point often with a cautionary conclusion. Therefore, from the very outset this book proclaims itself to be a work of fiction rather than a historical account.
This is a case study from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust focusing on the story of the SS St Louis and her refugee passengers. This story reminds us of the cruelty of the Nazis and how easily lies can be spread though propaganda.
Last year's very popular lesson plan on Hedy and her memory book has been reproduced because it links so well with the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 - Keep the Memory Alive. Your students will be encouraged to create their own memory books, or contribute to Hedy&'s, and in doing so will learn about the Holocaust and Holocaust Memorial Day.
Through an exploration of Holocaust memorials, this assembly examines the different ways that we can keep the memory alive, which is the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2015.
The assembly is suitable for all secondary school students.
For more resources for HMD 2015 please see:
www.hmd.org.uk/education
This assembly for secondary age students gives an overview of Holocaust Memorial Day, what we commemorate on this day, and tells the story of Henry Wermuth - a survivor of the Holocaust. <br />
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The assembly offers many ways to include students in the assembly, through drama, poetry or song, or it can be delivered entirely by a teacher. <br />
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It is adaptable for different age groups or suitable for a whole school assembly.