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Educational Resources for UK Teachers

This website has been designed with teachers in mind. It is intended to be the key resource for teachers in the UK who are planning activities for HMD 2010. It is filled with lesson plans, worksheets, activities and assembly materials which are appropriate for primary, secondary and post 16 education across all curriculum subjects.

  • The Secret Archive

    The Secret Archive of Oneg Shabbat

    Dawid Gruber was 19 years old, in 1942, when he left his final message to the world.

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  • Hugo Gryns

    Hugo Gryn

    Hugo Gryn was 13 when he and his mother, father and little brother Gabi were forced into a ghetto before being transported to Auschwitz.

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  • Denise Affonco

    Denise Affonço

    On April 17th 1975, Khmer Rouge forces entered Phnom Penh, Cambodia and defeated the ruling Lon Nol Army. The taking of Phnom Penh marked the beginning of the Cambodian genocide.

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  • Ben Helfgott

    Ben Helfgott

    Each time Ben Helfgott revisits Piotrkow, a town in Poland 26 miles away from Lodz, where he grew up, he notices how little the physical features of the town have changed even though the community he lived in was cruelly and systematically destroyed.

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  • Mosaic of Victims

    A Mosaic of Victims

    The Nazis did not value diversity. Taking a great interest in eugenics and working from the premise of a false science of race, they declared that the “Aryan” people were superior to all other groups.

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