Teaching the Holocaust in history

A collection of lessons and schemes of work for secondary history students studying the Holocaust and mass genocide of the Jewish people and other minority groups

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Educate your students about the Holocaust using this selection of resources created by teachers for teachers

A collection of lessons and schemes of work for secondary history students studying the Holocaust and mass genocide of the Jewish people and other minority groups. Monday 27 January 2025 marks Holocaust Memorial Day in which we commemorate the 11.5 million people murdered (6 million of whom were Jews) and the countless others who have suffered as a result of the genocide which occurred during the Second World War.

To support your planning relating to this tragic historical event we have collated a selection of resources to support you in teaching your students about the causes, prejudices, events and longstanding impact of the Holocaust.

Individual Lessons

Teachers TV: Lesson Starters - The Holocaust
Teachers TV

Teachers TV: Lesson Starters - The Holocaust

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**Lesson starter ideas for teaching the Holocaust. Teachers should watch programme in full for suitability before showing to their class. ** This programme contains 6 KS3 lesson starters on the topic of the Holocaust: 1. These rare home movies capture the personal lives of a Jewish family in German...
Holocaust Ordinary things - L1
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Holocaust Ordinary things - L1

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This lesson has been created with KS3 secondary history students in mind and is the first lesson in my Holocaust unit of work. This lesson has been created on Microsoft Powerpoint and the accompanying student handout and worksheet has been created on Powerpoint also. . Teacher Notes & Answers ha...
The Holocaust
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The Holocaust

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2 HOURS OF CONTENT - A detailed and well differentiated editable history lesson all about what went on during the Holocaust and how each of the camps operated as well as what daily life was like for the different inmates. There is a lot of content here, so you may want to teach this over 2 lessons. ...
Holocaust: The Final Solution
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Holocaust: The Final Solution

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**For teaching 11-14s Holocaust** This lesson looks at **'What was the Final Solution?'** Students will start by looking at the Wannsee Conference and the concentrations camps. Students will look in depth at Auschwitz and Dachau using a variety of tasks (videos and sources). Students will aim to ...
Holocaust Challenging stereotypes - L2
mrshopehistory

Holocaust Challenging stereotypes - L2

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This lesson has been created with KS3 secondary history students in mind and is the second lesson in my Holocaust unit of work. This lesson has been created on Microsoft Powerpoint and the accompanying student worksheets have been created on Microsoft Word and Powerpoint . Teacher Notes & Answ...
Teachers TV: The Kindertransport - Goodbye Home
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Teachers TV: The Kindertransport - Goodbye Home

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This moving and powerful programme tells the story of the struggle Jewish refugee children faced in the late 1930s when they were uprooted from home to avoid persecution and the forthcoming Holocaust. From 1938 to 1939 ten thousand Jewish refugee children were saved from a life of continuous persecu...
How should we remember the Holocaust?
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How should we remember the Holocaust?

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This is a group task - pupils look at pictures of Holocaust memorials from around the world, the discuss and assess them against criteria. They use this work to then design their own Holocaust memorial which is then peer assessed

Resources from the Holocaust Educational Trust

Anti-Jewish Laws
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Anti-Jewish Laws

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This recently updated resource, with separate lesson plans for primary and secondary, provides a flexible means by which students can develop their understanding of the chronological evolution of Nazi anti-Jewish policy in Germany and reflect upon the human impact that these measures had. The resour...
Rescue during the Holocaust
HolocaustEducationalTrust

Rescue during the Holocaust

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This resource provides profiles of non-Jewish individuals who were involved in providing relief and rescue during the Holocaust. Accompanying lesson plans allow students to investigate some of the complex issues surrounding rescue and to consider the motivations of rescuers. The resource also forms ...
How Should We Remember the Holocaust?
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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...
British Responses to Nazism and the Holocaust
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British Responses to Nazism and the Holocaust

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This resource examines how both British institutions and individuals reacted to Nazism. In so doing, it encourages students to engage with the complexity of human behaviour during the Holocaust and cautions against facile judgements of particular nations as good or bad . This resource als...
Dilemmas, Choices and Responses to the Holocaust
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Dilemmas, Choices and Responses to the Holocaust

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This resource explores the actions of a wide range of people who were confronted with moral choices during the Nazi era. In so doing, it also seeks to avoid simplistic judgements about human behaviour and to consider the complexities of terms such as 'perpetrator' and 'bystander'. The resource also ...