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History at key stage 3 (Year 9)
Unit 19: How and why did the Holocaust happen?
Section 5: What was the Final Solution?
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Objectives |
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- about what the Nazis meant by the term the 'Final Solution' and the creation of death camps in Eastern Europe
- about forced deportation and the organisation of the camps
- to plan and carry out short investigations and summarise findings for a particular audience
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Activities |
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Outcomes |
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Children: |
- Show pupils a short feature film extract, or TV documentary extract to show an arrival at a death camp.
- Build pupils' knowledge-base through the creation of a spidergram with the 'Final Solution' at its centre, with appropriate explanations to emerge through pupil questioning. Opportunities to unpack pupils' misconceptions should be actively sought,
eg all new arrivals were gassed, only Jews were deported and exterminated, all 'concentration camps' were 'death camps'.
- Divide pupils up into 'expert groups' to undertake brief research into one aspect per group,
eg clearing the ghettos, deportation by rail, arrival and selection. Ask pupils to report back their findings, by way of a presentation, to the rest of the class.
- Lead a class discussion to clarify main points and to respond to issues which pupils might wish to raise.
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- use a combination of source material to provide specific evidence of one aspect of the 'Final Solution'
- demonstrate accurate knowledge of the treatment of the Jews and of other groups
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Points to note |
- Remind pupils, as appropriate, that Nazi persecution was not just of the Jews, but of other minorities,
eg gypsies, homosexuals.
- As with all visual images of the death camps, a sensitive balance needs to be sought between wanting pupils to know and understand what happened, to whom, how and why, and avoiding piling up images of horror which are degrading and disrespectful to the memory of the human beings involved.
- Contact can be made with organisations which have links with survivors of the Holocaust to arrange a talk by a camp survivor in school. Alternatively, a number of videos exist which can be adapted for this same purpose.
- Citizenship: this work provides a context for pupils to think about topical political, spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues, problems and events.
- Key skills: these activities provide opportunities for pupils to demonstrate evidence of communication (discussion) and working with others.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
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