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Holocaust Memorial Day: Remembering Resistance and Courage
Gain ideas and inspiration for how to mark Holocaust Memorial Day in your classroom.
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The Holocaust
In this one-hour webinar you will gain ideas, inspiration, and resources for how to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. This session will provide you with classroom-ready practical materials and teaching strategies that will support your students' intellectual and emotional engagement with the Holocaust, and will focus on stories of resistance and courage. In addition to engaging with historical case studies, the resources will enable your students to make connections to the world today and think about how they can be Upstanders against hate and injustice.
We are grateful to The Hammer Family for supporting the development of our on-demand learning and teaching resources.
Resource list
- Universe of Obligation
- Deciding to Act
- Le Chambon: A Village Takes a Stand
- Denmark: A Nation Takes Action
- How Should We Remember?
- Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior
- Identity Charts
- Jigsaw: Developing Community and Disseminating Knowledge
- Facing History Scholar Reflections: Bystanders and Resisters
- Weapons of the Spirit
- Universe of Obligation Graphic Organiser – PDF
- The Range of Human Behaviour Vocabulary Terms - PDF
- Perpetrators, Bystanders, Upstanders, and Rescuers - PDF
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