Teachers

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Our portfolio of classroom resources are intuitively designed to help enrich your teaching and your students’ learning about the Holocaust. Informed by our research into what students know and understand, these materials address specific topics and themes. Each set of resources are accompanied by comprehensive guidance and associated CPD courses to develop your confidence in delivering them in your classroom. To support your planning, these materials are organized around five key enquiry questions, presented below.

Who were the victims?

10 resources
  • A note from Leon

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  • Authentic encounters

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  • Being German and Jewish: The Gumprich and Voos families

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  • Jewish life in Warsaw before the Holocaust

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  • Life in Plauen

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  • Narrative links

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  • Striving to live

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  • Surviving survival?

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  • What happened to the Jews of Europe?

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  • Who were the six million?

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Where and when did the Holocaust take place?

2 resources
  • A space called ‘Treblinka’

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  • What happened to the Jews of Europe?

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Who were the perpetrators? Who was responsible?

3 resources
  • Being human?

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  • Compromised identities

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  • Nazi antisemitism: Where did it come from?

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What were the causes and consequences?

4 resources
  • Now we know about the Holocaust, so what?

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  • Surviving survival?

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  • The void

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  • What happened to the Jews of Europe?

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How is Britain connected to the Holocaust?

3 resources
  • ‘Being human?’ workshop – London

    Why do some commit genocide and others risk their lives […]

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  • ‘Being human?’

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  • ‘Being Human?’ Workshop, Birmingham

    Why do some commit genocide and others risk their lives […]

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Our research-informed national programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) has been transforming the way the Holocaust is taught in English secondary schools for more than 15 years. Today, we offer a range of CPD opportunities designed to suit your needs and contexts. This includes our landmark MA module, our international MOOC, and our collection of self-guided online courses. If you are interested in face-to-face CPD opportunities and our offer for ITE trainees please email us at: holocaust@ucl.ac.uk

Self-guided online courses

  • 6 things your students should know about the Holocaust

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  • Authentic Encounters with the Holocaust: A starting point for teachers

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  • Online Masters Module: The Holocaust in the Curriculum

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  • Teaching the Holocaust: Innovative Approaches to the Challenges We Face

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  • Understanding the Holocaust at Key Stage 3: Teaching with a reasearch-informed Textbook

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Podcasts and Seminars

  • Podcast 1: 'Survivors'

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  • Podcast 2: Empire of Destruction

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  • Podcast 3: Conspiracy theories and the Holocaust – in conversation with Jeremy Hayward

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  • Podcast 4: Assessment and the Holocaust – in conversation with Dr Mary Richardson

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  • Special Podcast: Leon Greenman and the struggle for survival

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  • HMD Guest Lecture 2024, ‘Fragility of Freedom’

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  • Dialogues in Holocaust Education: ‘The Holocaust – An Unfinished History’ with Professor Dan Stone

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  • Dialogues in Holocaust Education: ‘Bystander Society’

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  • Dialogues in Holocaust Education: ‘Rescuers’

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Teaching and learning does not only happen in school classrooms. The recent growth in remote education and home-schooling in England creates opportunities for students to develop as independent learners, but this potential cannot be realised without structure and purpose. Our suite of self-directed online student resources gives you the material to provide this.

Support student's independent learning

  • 6 things you should know about the Holocaust

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  • Being German and Jewish: Living in hope in uncertain times

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  • Heroic actions of the Holocaust

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  • Janusz Korczak and the Orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto

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  • Jewish life in Warsaw before the Holocaust

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  • Resistance & the Holocaust

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  • The struggle to survive

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  • The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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  • Then and now

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  • What's my story?

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  • What was a Nazi concentration camp?

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“Excellent resources and a very new, fresh and visual way of teaching the Holocaust. It made me think about how I teach more generally.”

Kelly Manfield, Bathouse College