Wales joins in the memories

An ambitious project encouraging pupils in Wales to learn about the Holocaust through video testimonies of young Welsh refugees has been developed for schools in English and Welsh.

The Holocaust Education Resources have been produced by the Jewish History Association of Wales as part of a project called the European Network of Testimony Based Digital Education

Key topics for primary and secondary school students will include pre-war Jewish life, the responsibility of ordinary people, Jewish resistance and Britain’s response. Sources including photographs, parliamentary debates and trial transcripts are also available including online classroom activities, educational resources and teacher guidance notes on the history of the Holocaust and its connection to Wales. They are aligned to the new Welsh curriculum and free to use.

The materials are built around video testimonies of child refugees who came to Wales in the 1930s to escape the Nazis, collated from the USC (University of Southern California) Shoah Foundation visual history archive.