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Your students will learn how discrimination was used during the Holocaust, Nazi persecution of other groups and the Genocide in Rwanda. You will discuss antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred in society today, and what to do if you are the victim or a witness to a hate crime. Made in partnership with Stand Up! Education Against Discrimination.
This lesson plan is for secondary schools, and is suitable for use in History, English, RE or Citizenship. It introduces your students to the subject of genocide through poetry, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The poems included represent a variety of experiences from the Holocaust and more recent genocides.
Born in 1927, Otto Rosenberg grew up in Berlin with his grandmother and two siblings. His family were Sinti, a Romani population of central Europe. Otto remembers living on private rented ‘lots’ of land that his family shared with the caravans and houses of extended family and other members of the Sinti community.
Researching her family history, Sigrid Falkenstein found her aunt’s name – Anna Lehnkering – on a list of 30,000 people who were murdered by the Nazis as part of the Aktion T4 project in the year 1940/1941. This spurred Sigrid on to find out more both about her Aunt and Aktion T4, the Nazi programme for sterilising and murdering those with mental or physical disabilities.
Stonewall Chief Executive Ben Summerskill discusses the persecution of gay men and lesbians under the Nazi regime and discusses why Holocaust Memorial Day is an important day in the equalities calendar in the UK.
This ten minute film introduces Holocaust Memorial Day and explains why we commemorate the Holocaust, Nazi persecution of other groups, and the subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
John Simm reads the words of Sigrid Falknestein.
Sheila Hancock reads the poem Refugee Blues by W H Auden.
Learn Peat Bog Soldiers – a protest song written by prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp, with this song sheet for Holocaust Memorial Day. Includes information about Nazi persecution of other groups. This is part of a series which provides lyrics and music for songs created during, or in response to, a genocide.