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The Holocaust
Part of the series Secondary Lesson Starters, from the Teachers TV video archive.
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Summary
This classroom resource contains six Key Stage 3 history lesson starters on the Holocaust, featuring archive footage, personal testimonies from survivors and other material.
See testimonies from eye witnesses regarding the Auschwitz Orchestra. There's also pre-war home movie footage of a Jewish family in Germany.
Show secondary students the story of Leon Greenman, one of a few British Jews to be deported to Auschwitz.
This video is designed to stimulate classroom discussion on the subject.
Related links (7)
Holocaust Education Development Programme
The Institute of Education's national programme, bringing research and scholarship into the classroom with free teaching and learning materials and CPD opportunities
Jewish Museum, London
The moving Holocaust gallery that focuses on the story of Holocaust survivor Leon Greenman
USC Shoah Foundation Institute
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute website features interviews with witnesses to the Holocaust and suggests how to integrate survivor testimony into your teaching
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Rich website where you can access archival material, case studies and online exhibitions
House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Educational Site
Contains digitised documents, photographs, historical accounts and information about visiting the site and taking part in educational seminars
Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History
A leading archive on the Holocaust and Nazi era with digitised photographs, documents and other materials
Yad Vashem
Israel's national museum and memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, and a rich source of online materials
- Duration: 20 mins
- No Subtitles
- Published: 08 April 2010