Holocaust Learning UK wants to assure teachers that screening the films is a simple process and requires neither scene-setting nor concluding. Films readily accommodate introductions and conclusions that teachers may wish to add.
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
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
59 minutes in two equal parts
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
