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HMD08 Primary Lesson Plan

HMD08 Primary Lesson Plan

Creative activities to use in lessons in primary schools (KS2/Age 7-11) based on the theme for HMD08: “Imagine… Remember, reflect, react”.

Sometimes when people are feeling sad they use music to help them feel better. In the Primary Assembly we heard about Hana and George. They were sad when they had to leave their home during the Holocaust.

One of the places Hana and George were sent to was Terezin (Theresienstadt). This was a small town that the Nazis converted into a ghetto. A town where Jewish people were made to live. The Nazis pretended that Terezin was a nice place to live but really the Jewish people who were sent
there were prisoners.

In 1943 Alice Herz-Sommer, her husband and her little boy, who was only six years old, were sent to live in Terezin. Alice could play the piano and she used music to help her through difficult times. The Nazis found out that she liked music and they made her give concerts to the prisoners in the ghetto. Perhaps they thought that this would help them pretend to the rest of the world that the ghetto was a nice
place. Alice gave music lessons to the children. Many people were murdered by the Nazis but some people who went to the concerts or took music lessons are still alive today and they remember how listening to music helped them through difficult times. Alice is now 104 years old. She lives in London and still plays the piano everyday. Her son became a famous cellist. Alice says that “music makes humans rich.”

• Primary_Lesson_Plan (pdf)