The Holocaust Pupil's Book: This is History

Summary:
This is History! is the Schools History Project's Key Stage 3 scheme of work for National Curriculum history. Through a combination of in-depth overview units it offers varied, relevant and challenging study for the whole Key Stage 3 history programme of study.

The Holocaust provides a sensitive yet thought-provoking analysis of how and why Nazi persecution of the Jews escalated into genocide in World War Two.

The Holocaust is a compulsory topic in Key Stage 3 National Curriculum but is also a major opportunity for citizenship education. Ann Moore has built upon her experience of working with the Anne Frank Educational Trust and the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam to write a clear account of the Holocaust which places it firmly within its historical content, but also allows lessons to be learnt from it for life today.

The central task is to assess and compile evidence about the Holocaust and to present that evidence in the form of a website.

Table of Contents:
1 Introduction
Find out about the damage caused by stereotyping
2 What was it like to be Jewish in Europe in the 1930s?
Investigate the Jewish way of life in Europe before the Nazis took power in Germany
3 How did anti-semitism change through history?
Uncover the roots of anti-semitism
4 How did Hitler make German Jews into non-citizens?
Analyse Nazi laws to understand their impact on German Jews
5 Did Hitler succeed in making Germans hate the Jews?
Look at the work of Goebbels - did he brainwash the Germans?
6 Should Britain have done more to help German Jews?
Evaluate British immigration policy in the 1930s
7 What did the Nazis do to the Jews of Europe during the Second World War?
Examine the evidence on the Holocaust and decide who was responsible for it
8 Who resisted Hitler?
Many did resist Nazism. What would you have done?
9 So...why did it happen?
Assess the factors that brought about the Holocaust
10 Why study the Holocaust?
Evaluate the historical significance of the Holocaust

About the Author(s):
Ann Moore is the Senior Effectiveness Officer for Humanities & Religious Education in Liverpool, and has worked closely with both the Anne Frank House and Anne Frank Trust on Holocaust education. She is the author of SHP’s Key Stage 3 Special Needs Support Materials. Christopher Culpin is Director of the Schools History Project