Welcome to the Centre for Holocaust Education

We are the world leader for research-informed teacher and student education. Our high-impact programmes deepen knowledge and understanding of the genocide and powerfully explore its contemporary significance.

CPD

Transform your practice through our wide range of research-informed CPD courses.

 Resources

Respond to the needs and challenges of the classroom with our acclaimed resources.

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Research

Deepen your understanding of teaching and learning with our landmark research.

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How much do you know?

  1. If a German soldier refused an instruction to kill Jews, then most likely they would be…

  2. Of almost half a million Jews sent to the Nazi camp Belzec, what percentage survived?

  3. In 1933 the total population of Germany was 67 million. What percentage of the population was Jewish?

  4. What is the approximate percentage of Jewish children in occupied Europe who were murdered during the Holocaust?

  5. Which of the Nazis’ victims were the first to rise up in armed urban resistance against their oppressors?

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Our textbook

Understanding the Holocaust: How and why did it happen?

Our research-informed textbook is the only one of its kind in the world

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Latest Research

Full research report now published

Continuity and Change: Ten years of teaching about the Holocaust in England's secondary schools

This research, a national study involving over 1,000 secondary school teachers, explores the development of Holocaust education in the decade following the Centre’s landmark 2009 study.

Continuity and Change Data Release 3

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in English secondary schools

New data from our research reveals that, across England, the book and its film adaptation are currently being used by over a third of teachers in their lessons on the Holocaust.

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Highlights

Schools Week Opinion: The Israel and Gaza war is straining discourse in our schools

Teachers need urgent help to address the war in Israel […]

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Marking Interfaith Week, 2023

In our work at the Centre for Holocaust Education it […]

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Our statement on the events in Israel

The Centre is deeply shocked and saddened by the horrific […]

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Impact

Since 2009 we have worked with over 28,000 teachers

 

The Journey of a Beacon School

Manchester Enterprise Academy

We are really proud of everything we have achieved over the last decade.  What we do is best understood when you see the impact in the classroom.  Watch our short film following the story of just one of our Beacon Schools.

 

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