How to use this website
Thank you for visiting the HMD 2010 education website. We’re really pleased that you are considering commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day within your education institution. We hope that you find this site easy to navigate, however, here we offer advice on how to use this site.
We realise that educators may be organising HMD activities for their class alone and we’ve designed the site to allow for this. However, we actively encourage the growing number of schools which, on or around the 27th January, take all students and staff off timetable allowing them to participate together in a Holocaust Memorial Day activity. They may plan for a survivor to visit the school and to hold cross-curricular workshops throughout the day.
Some things to note:
If the resources that you are using are held on the main HMD website, this will be clearly signposted. You can use the ‘back’ button on your browser to come back to the education site after downloading the resource that you need.
It is essential that you read through the resources before presenting them to your class in order to ensure that you feel that these are appropriate for the age and ability of your students.
HMDT does not create these resources for Holocaust studies lessons taught at other times of the school year. Our resources are firmly tied in with the HMD 2010 theme The Legacy of Hope and are intended for use in HMD activities. If you are looking for more general resources on teaching about the Holocaust, we recommend that you contact the organisations within our useful links section on our main site.
Points of Access
We know how busy educators are and, with this in mind, we’ve designed the site for you to access in the way that suits you best.
Case-Study specific: Teachers may choose to focus their activity on one individual story. For HMD 2010 we’re looking at The Secret Archive of Oneg Shabbat, the Mosaic of Victims who were persecuted under the Nazi regime and the survivor stories of Ben Helfgott, Rabbi Hugo Gryn and a survivor of the Cambodian genocide Denise Affonço. By accessing the ‘Case Studies’ tab, you can choose the story you wish to focus on and download this. You will then find all of the resources we have available that are linked with that particular case study, these are organised by age range.
Age-range specific: HMDT believe that HMD can be commemorated by all students, from Primary to Post 16. There is simply a different approach to be taken for each age range. You can explore our resources through Primary, Secondary or Post 16 content. The resources within these sections are also broken down by subject area.
Subject specific: HMD is not just for the history classroom. HMDT believe that a cross-curricular approach to marking HMD within formal education is as appropriate as subject specific studies, though if you teach a specific area of the curriculum, you can explore each subject directly. Within this section, activities are broken down by age range.
You can contact any member of the HMDT Team on 0845 838 1883 or enquiries@hmd.org.uk to discuss how you can commemorate HMD 2010 with your students.