Teachers

What do you want to do today?

Our portfolio of classroom resources are intuitively designed to help enrich your teaching and your students’ learning about the Holocaust. Informed by our research into what students know and understand, these materials address specific topics and themes. Each set of resources are accompanied by comprehensive guidance and associated CPD courses to develop your confidence in delivering them in your classroom. To support your planning, these materials are organized around five key enquiry questions, presented below.

Who were the victims?

10 resources

Where and when did the Holocaust take place?

3 resources
  • A space called ‘Treblinka’

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  • What happened to the Jews of Europe?

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  • What was a Nazi concentration camp?

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What were the causes and consequences?

4 resources
  • Now we know about the Holocaust, so what?

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  • Surviving survival?

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  • The void

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  • What happened to the Jews of Europe?

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How is Britain connected to the Holocaust?

3 resources

Our research-informed national programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) has been transforming the way the Holocaust is taught in English secondary schools for more than 15 years. Today, we offer a range of CPD opportunities designed to suit your needs and contexts. This includes our landmark MA module, our international MOOC, and our collection of self-guided online courses. If you are interested in face-to-face CPD opportunities and our offer for ITE trainees please email us at: holocaust@ucl.ac.uk

Research-informed professional development

  • Online Masters Module: The Holocaust in the Curriculum

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  • Teaching the Holocaust: Innovative Approaches to the Challenges We Face

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  • 6 things your students should know about the Holocaust

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  • Authentic Encounters with the Holocaust: A starting point for teachers

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  • Understanding the Holocaust at Key Stage 3: Teaching with a research-informed Textbook

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  • Podcast 1: ‘Survivors’

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  • Podcast 2: Empire of Destruction

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  • Podcast 3: Conspiracy theories and the Holocaust – in conversation with Jeremy Hayward

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  • Podcast 4: Assessment and the Holocaust – in conversation with Dr Mary Richardson

    Podcast 4: Assessment and the Holocaust – in conversation with […]

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  • Special Podcast: Leon Greenman and the struggle for survival

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Teaching and learning does not only happen in school classrooms. The recent growth in remote education and home-schooling in England creates opportunities for students to develop as independent learners, but this potential cannot be realised without structure and purpose. Our suite of self-directed online student resources gives you the material to provide this.

Support student's independent learning

  • Janusz Korczak and the Orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto

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  • Then and now

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  • The struggle to survive

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  • Resistance & the Holocaust

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  • What’s my story?

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  • The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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  • Being German and Jewish

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  • Jewish life in Warsaw before the Holocaust

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  • 6 things you should know about the Holocaust

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  • Heroic actions of the Holocaust

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  • What was a Nazi concentration camp?

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“Excellent resources and a very new, fresh and visual way of teaching the Holocaust. It made me think about how I teach more generally.”

Kelly Manfield, Bathouse College