LGfL Holocaust Education Resources
LGfL has produced a range of unique resources with partners to support the delivery of Holocaust Education.
N.B Some of the resources feature some content which some learners may find upsetting given the nature of the topic, so Educatiors are advised to study the content in advance of using or signposting the resource to learners.
The Holocaust Explained
This website has been created to help learners understand the essential facts of the Holocaust, its causes and its consequences. We aim to answer questions that people most often want to ask in an accessible, reliable and engaging way. Designed with the British school curriculum in mind, our content is organised across nine clearly defined and easy-to-navigate topic areas.
Exploring Holocaust Art
Resources to support those students studying GCSE History and Art & Design and Holocaust studies. The resource can help students to ‘deconstruct’ art works and included are ideas for further thought and discussion, as well as some practical starting points for the creation of students' own visual art work.
Documenting the Holocaust
The Wiener Library is one of the world's leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era. LGfL has been given unique access to the collection for this powerful resource suitable for Key Stages 2-5 PSHE, Citizenship, History and R.E. It features unique examples of how the Nazi's documented and manipulated the truth to influence how people felt towards Jewish people and led to their persecution.
The M Room - Finding Out About Atrocities
LGfL's unique resource that features access to secret World War II listening sites where the British Secret Service bugged high-ranking German Military prisoners. It was through these discoveries that the British Government first heard of the Nazi mis-treatment and what became known as the Holocaust.
A Personal Experience as a Kindertransportee
Meet Bertha Leviton, a kindertransportee who escaped Nazi Germany as a child and came to live in England in 1939.
Why Do You Write About War?
Michael Morpurgo eloquently explains the lasting damage that war creates within families, communties and societies as a whole and why he writes about the theme so frequently in his books.
'So that's a kind of strange collateral damage that war does that people don't really think about it disrupts wrecks lives, societies, communities, countries in a way that nothing else does. It's a manmade catastrophe which we seem to go back and back into. And I think because of that, that lives with me and has lived with me all my life. Every time I look at the television and I see a bomb going down, and whether it was Afghanistan or Iraq or wherever, you know that there is going to be grief following.
And you wonder, why don't people understand the pity of war, the tragedy of war and find another way to talk through their difficulties? And I'm still trying to work this out at age 70. So I write about it.'
Michael Morpurgo