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History at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 19: How and why did the Holocaust happen?

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Language for learning

Through the activities in this unit pupils will be able to understand, use and spell correctly words relating to:

  • Holocaust concepts, eg Ghetto, Final Solution
  • attitudes, eg discrimination, prejudice
  • values, eg racism, interpretation

Speaking and listening - through the activities pupils could:

  • ask different sorts of questions to extend thinking and refine ideas

Reading - through the activities pupils could:

  • recognise the author's standpoint and how it affects the meaning

Sections in this unit

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.
1. Rights and responsibilities?
2. Rights denied: why was Anne Frank forced to go into hiding?
3. Rights denied: how did Nazi persecution of the Jews develop?
4. How and why were ghettos set up and what was life like inside them?
5. What was the Final Solution?
6. What happened when people found out about the Holocaust?
7. Exploring the Holocaust - what questions and issues remain?
8. So, how and why did the Holocaust happen?