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History at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 19: How and why did the Holocaust happen?

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Resources

Resources include:

  • a large wall-mounted map of Europe
  • appropriate visual material from contemporary sources, eg photos, posters, drawings, newsreels, and from secondary sources, eg TV/video, slides
  • accounts by survivors, including audio accounts, memoirs and poetry
  • appropriate material relating to commemoration/remembrance days, eg Anne Frank, Auschwitz
  • websites, eg www.annefrank.nl (Anne Frank House) and www.remember.org (please note that, while extensive sources are available on websites, these should be used with great care as many contain racist or denial material; it is strongly recommended that any website information is preselected and downloaded by the teacher)

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?