Marking Holocaust Memorial Day

Mark Holocaust Memorial Day with this selection of thought-provoking lesson ideas, activities and assemblies, including teacher guidance

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Resources, Teaching Ideas & Guidance On How To Mark Holocaust Memorial Day With Secondary School Students

Resources to help secondary students think about the Holocaust and its legacy

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27 January each year; the same date that the Nazi’s largest death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated in 1945. To help your students explore the Holocaust in a sensitive way, we’ve hand-picked resources that present the facts, guide conversations and stimulate deeper thinking.

Teaching the Holocaust

How Should We Remember the Holocaust?
HolocaustEducationalTrust

How Should We Remember the Holocaust?

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This lesson can be used as a natural conclusion to a programme of study on the Holocaust and as a focus for schools which wish to create their own Holocaust memorial. Using case studies of various forms of Holocaust remembrance from around the world, it encourages students to reflect on the nature o...
Holocaust Memorial Day Assembly - Secondary schools
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Holocaust Memorial Day Assembly - Secondary schools

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This assembly for secondary schools introduces students to Holocaust Memorial Day, and how we can mark it. Students will learn about how people around the world have been affected by genocide, and what we can do today. It can be delivered on or around 27 January. The script and presentation are des...
Holocaust Memorial Day Assembly
mrshopehistory

Holocaust Memorial Day Assembly

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This assembly resource has been created with KS3 and KS4 secondary students in mind to be delivered on Holocaust Memorial Day (27th January). This resource has been created on Microsoft Powerpoint Teacher Notes have been added to the notes section underneath each relevant slide on the Powerpoint to...
Holocaust documentary
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Holocaust documentary

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Watch a great 2023 documentary on how the Holocaust began and use these questions to help your students structure their notes. This documentary looks at the steps leading up to the creation of death camps and stresses to students that the Holocaust was not planned. It mainly looks at the invasion ...
Take a look at these Holocaust resources for the secondary history classroom