Click here to download a glossary to support teaching the Holocaust to students of Key Stage 3 and above.

It contains photos, sections of survivor testimony, and a special feature on one Holocaust survivor, Zdenka Fantlová. A photo of the suitcase Zdenka used when being transported to Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz appeared in a booklet produced by the Guardian in September. Zdenka’s story is about to be published for the first time in the UK on Holocaust Memorial Day 2010.

Her book is dedicated:

To an unknown member of the British Army,
who, through his humanity, saved my life in
Bergen-Belsen in April 1945.

Watch a video.

You can find out more Zdenka’s story in the glossary.

Click here to find out more about buying Zdenka’s book “The Tin Ring“.

Anyone who can shed light on the identity of this officer is asked to get in touch.

This is the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (27th January) 2010. There are many useful resources, both primary and secondary, to be found on the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust website. There are ideas for assemblies and a range of subject areas including PSHE/Citizenship, Maths and Science, RE, Music and Drama, ICT, English, Humanities and Design and Technology.

In many faiths, the lighting candles is a symbolic representaton of ideas such as joy, remembrance. As part of supporting the theme to Stand Up to Hatred for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, you are invited to light a candle. “By lighting a candle you are showing your support at embracing diversity and dispelling the darkness that racism, oppression and ignorance can lead to.” Click on the candle and add your light.

This is the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2009. January 27th – the date of the liberation of Auschwitz is the date on which victims of the Holocaust and other genocides are remembered.

Education materials are available from the Holocaust Memorial Day website.

The theme for 2008 is Imagine … Remember, Reflect, React.

They have produced a short video The Dignity of Difference (in two parts) which can be viewed here, on the HMDT website or on YouTube.

Every year, in time for Holocaust Memorial Day, HETI or the Holocaust Education Trust of Ireland run the Crocus Project. Aimed at 11-12 year olds, it involves pupils in planting yellow crocuses to commemorate the 1.5 million children who died during the Holocaust. HETI send bulbs to participating schools together with a pack which gives guidelines and suggests classroom activities which encourage tolerance and respect for others.