Flexible, evidence-led resources for tutor time, assemblies, and classroom use
The UCL Centre for Holocaust Education is proud to offer a new suite of free, open-access resources to support schools in marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2026. This year’s national theme, Bridging Generations, invites reflection on how memory is passed on when living witnesses are no longer with us -and how we, as educators and students, can carry that memory forward with care, responsibility, and critical insight.
Our resources are designed to support teachers across all subjects and settings – including those with no prior specialism in Holocaust education. Whether you have 15 minutes or a full lesson, each resource offers flexible, age-appropriate segments that can be used in tutor time, assemblies, or classroom settings. You can use a single slide or activity or follow the full sequence – the choice is yours.
Why Bridging Generations?
As the era of living survivor testimony draws to a close, the task of remembrance becomes one of intergenerational transmission. These resources explore how memory travels – through people, places, artefacts, and stories – and how students today can become active participants in that process.
Each resource uses a real human story as a starting point, then builds outward to explore historical context, geographical journeys, and contemporary relevance. Students are invited to engage with evidence, challenge misconceptions, and reflect on their own role in carrying memory forward.
What’s included?
Each PowerPoint/PDF resource includes:
- A hook image or artefact to spark curiosity
- A personal story of a Holocaust victim or survivor
- A geographical or symbolic ‘bridge’ to anchor the theme
- A slow reveal of sources and inquiry-based tasks
- A misconception check, grounded in UCL research
- A creative or reflective student outcome
- Optional links to wider victim groups and contemporary relevance
The resources are designed to be accessible, inclusive, and emotionally safe – with clear guidance for non-specialist delivery.
Explore the resources
Key Stage 3: Bridging Generations with Leon Greenman: Explore how one man’s testimony, artefacts, and the places connected to his life form a bridge between past and present – even in the absence of surviving descendants.
Key Stage 4: Bridging Generations with Janusz Korczak: Discover how a children’s doctor and orphanage director in the Warsaw Ghetto left behind a moral legacy that continues to inspire responsibility and care today.
Key Stage 5: Bridging Generations with Laura Varon: Trace the intergenerational impact of a Sephardi survivor’s silence, memoir, and testimony – and explore how memory, trauma, and identity are passed on through families and communities.
Supporting you
Each resource includes teacher notes and suggested timings, but you are encouraged to adapt and select the segments that best suit your students, time constraints, and setting. Whether you use a single image or the full sequence, these materials are designed to support meaningful, inclusive, age and stage-appropriate engagement with Holocaust history and memory.
For further support, CPD opportunities, or to explore our full suite of research-informed resources, visit holocausteducation.org.uk
We would love to see or hear how your students respond to the stimuli materials – so do reach out via BlueSky @uclholocaust.bsky.social with any photos or summary outcomes, or email n.wetherall@ucl.ac.uk to share news of how your students and school marked HMD2026.