Key Highlights

  • Duration
    18 mins
  • Key stage(s)
    3 and 4
  • Ages
    11+
  • Supported subjects
    HISTORY, RE, PSHE, ENGLISH

Assembly Film 2: Children of the Holocaust

Children of the Holocaust tells the story through the experiences of survivors who lived through it as children. Young presenters guide students through clear, headlined topics, linking powerful testimony from Germany, Poland and Hungary. Striking visual sequences bring key concepts to life and set the Holocaust within the history of World War II.
DURATION
18 mins
Narrated by
Young presenters
Subtitles
Available

✔️ Built for Holocaust Memorial Day
Explains what HMD is and why we mark it, ideal for HMD assemblies across all year groups

✔️ Easy to follow, easy to discuss
Clear, headlined topics make it simple to pause, discuss or revisit a theme in 18 minutes

✔️ Through the eyes of children
Relatable young presenters and survivors’ childhood experiences bring the history close for ages 11+

Key Themes Discussed

  • Nazi occupation
  • Ghettos
  • Cattle trucks
  • Concentration camps
  • Slave labour
  • Hidden children
  • Forced journeys
  • Starvation
  • Disease
  • Death squads
  • Loss of identity and humanity
  • Resistance and rescue

GENERAL RESOURCES

Note: All links below open in external websites


The Holocaust Educational Trust resources for year 7-8:

Pre-war Jewish life

Impossible Choices: Life under Nazi Persecution

Vera’s Journey (A study of the Kindertransport via one young girl’s perspective)

What Makes a Hero? (Nicholas Winton and the Kindertransport)


The Holocaust Educational Trust resources for year 9+:

Ghettos

Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany

Britain, Refugees and the Kindertransport

Dilemmas, Choices and Responses

Rescue during the Holocaust


The Holocaust Educational Trust resources for sixth form and older students:

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