As well as allowing KS3 teachers to add greater depth to their lessons on Nazi Germany, this talk will enable teachers to better guide their GCSE and A Level students through exploring issues such as the ways were the lives of the German people affected by the Nazi police state, and how and why the Nazis were able to create a police state in the years 1933–39.
This education talk looks at the experiences of different groups within the Soviet POW population and how they were affected by Nazi racial, demographic and economic policies in occupied Eastern Europe.
Around 80,000 Jewish refugees arrived to the UK between 1933 and 1945. Aimed at GCSE and A-Level students, this talk will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to trace some of the journeys made by these 80,000 refugees, focusing on ‘ordinary’ people. It will also explore British responses to these refugees, including governmental actions and the activities of community and voluntary organisations.
A joint education event with the German History Society.
Aimed at GCSE and A-Level students, this talk will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to gain an understanding of the history of Polenaktion; to explore the November Pogrom from the perspective of eyewitnesses; to consider why the events were so significant; and to reflect on them 85 years on.
The Wiener Holocaust Library invites tenders to produce at least seventeen digital maps to be used by the Library and on its educational website, The Holocaust Explained.
This workshop marks 81 years since that decree and yet little is known about the genocide carried out against the Roma and Sinti communities of Europe by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. Referred to as ‘the forgotten Holocaust’ by Professor Eve Rosenhaft, this workshop draws upon The Wiener Holocaust Library’s collections of material on the genocide to uncover the story of this understudied aspect of Nazi persecution.
Black people experienced persecution and discrimination before, during and after the Third Reich in Germany and elsewhere. This workshop will utilise the Library’s collections to crucially explore how the persecution of the black community by the Nazi regime was not straightforward and followed a different timeline to the persecution of other groups.
In this talk, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students and teachers, the Library’s Education Officer, Kiera Fitzgerald, will draw upon the Library’s rich and diverse collections of original historical material to provide an introduction to the key events and the main features of the Holocaust.
Join us at The Wiener Holocaust Library to hear the extraordinary story of Eddy Boas, a child Holocaust survivor who showed resilience to survive and navigate the challenges faced from the Holocaust.
