Holocaust Learning UK offers schools five unique films, tailor-made for secondary school students and available free of charge.
The films are supported by bespoke resources and expertise provided by the Holocaust Educational Trust. All our films provide students with the essential historical facts of the Holocaust, together with memorable personal testimony, archive footage and a diverse cast of student actors to foster historical learning and an understanding of the Holocaust’s contemporary relevance.
Scroll across for a comparison between the five films.
> 10 Holocaust Survivors, student actors and presenters and remarkable archive provide a comprehensive overview and understanding of the Holocaust
52 minutes, for viewing in one sitting or with breaks at 19 minutes and 32 minutes
Three Kindertransport Children
> relatable and touching
> Happy Pre-War childhoods
> transformed by societal and state-sponsored antisemitism
> saying goodbye to their parents
> arriving in the UK
> making homes in the UK
> the realisation they would not be reunited with their parents
Life in Germany and Czechoslovakia:
> the rise of Hitler and Nazism
> Nazi dominance and occupation
> Kristallnacht
> British Government initiative to allow in unaccompanied Jewish children
>The devastation brought by WW2
> The fate of their parents
> by fighting oppression with kindness, ordinary people can make a difference
> learning from the past to build a better, safer future for all
20 minutes
Steven
> extraordinary storyteller
> youthful
> relatable
> A child’s life in concentration camps in Holland and Czechoslovakia
> Forced deportation across Europe in a cattle truck
Life in Holland:
> in 1930s and under Nazi occupation
> rise of fascism in Germany and elsewhere in Europe
> WW2 and the early days of the Holocaust
> Invasion and occupation of Western Europe
> antisemitism and racism today
> learning from the past to build a better, safer future for all
54 minutes in three equal parts of 18 minutes each
6 Holocaust survivors, 3 male, 3 female
> Powerful and compelling testimonies
> concentration camps
> slave labour
> hidden children
> forced journeys
> starvation
> death squads
> death march
> disease
> loss of identity & humanity
A pan-European overview of the
Holocaust in the context of WW2
> the importance of learning from the Holocaust today
> learning from the past to build a better, safer future for all
15 minutes
Janine
> engaging
> empathetic
> accessible
> A hidden child’s fight for survival under Nazi occupation
Life in Germany from 1933:
> the rise of Hitler
> anti-Jewish laws
> book burning
> Kristallnacht
> persecution of Jewish people
> persecution of those with disabilities
> invasion and occupation of Eastern Europe
> post-war genocides
> learning from the past to build a better, safer future for all
54 minutes in two equal parts
