2 HOURS OF CONTENT - A detailed and well differentiated editable history lesson all about what went on during the Holocaust and how each of the camps operated as well as what daily life was like for the different inmates. There is a lot of content here, so you may want to teach this over 2 lessons. The lesson is very easy to just pick up and use and includes a detailed PowerPoint, a variety of activities, source questions, clip tasks, exam-styles practice questions, active tasks and more.

This assembly resource has been created with KS3 and KS4 secondary students in mind to be delivered on Holocaust Memorial Day (27th January). This resource has been created on Microsoft Powerpoint Teacher Notes have been added to the notes section underneath each relevant slide on the Powerpoint to support with the delivery of the content. I am a history teacher and the content of this assembly resource is an extension of a type of activity that I would deliver to my history students when teaching the holocaust. This assembly resource offers a brief exploration using skills of inference of a historical artefact and relies upon student contributions through teacher questionning. A link to a Youtube video has been provided as part of this resource (please ensure you have access to youtube prior to use) This resource also makes reference to the 2026 Holocaust Memorial Day theme of ‘Bridging Generations’. The utmost care has been taken to ensure this resource has been created with the utmost respect to the victims of the holocaust and to ensure that students have the opportunity to connect and empathise to the human beings to whom the attrocities of the holocaust were committed. There a no images or corpses in this resource - however the murder of victims is discussed. I really hope you enjoy delivering this assembly and that your students find it engaging and valuable. If you are able to leave a review once you have taught it, I would be really grateful. Teaching Holocaust in history? Check out lessons from my scheme of work! Lesson 1: Ordinary Things Lesson 2: Challenging stereotypes

For teaching 11-14s Holocaust This lesson looks at 'What was the Final Solution?' Students will start by looking at the Wannsee Conference and the concentrations camps. Students will look in depth at Auschwitz and Dachau using a variety of tasks (videos and sources). Students will aim to answer the following question: Explain in what ways the ‘final solution’ was different from the way the Nazi’s treated the Jews between 1933-1941. The lesson finishes by looking at the liberation of Auschwitz. This lesson is differentiated for all students in your class, and includes all resources needed. Feedback is welcome, and please check out my other Holocaust lessons and materials.

A complete set of Holocaust Memorial Day assemblies for Primary, Lower Secondary and Upper Secondary learners, fully aligned with the 2026 theme Bridging Generations. These ready-to-use PowerPoints provide age-appropriate explanations, clear historical context and structured reflection opportunities to support remembrance and understanding. Ideal for whole-school assemblies, tutor time or PSHE. Each presentation offers comprehensive, fully written slide text so staff can deliver confidently without additional planning. The assemblies explore key ideas including prejudice, discrimination, how the Holocaust unfolded, and why remembrance remains essential as survivor numbers decline. The theme of Bridging Generations is woven throughout, helping pupils understand their role in carrying forward memory, promoting respect and building inclusive communities. The Primary assembly introduces the Holocaust sensitively, focusing on kindness, fairness and stories of courage, supported by clear explanations about Jewish communities and the importance of choosing respect. The Lower Secondary assembly provides structured historical context, survivor perspectives and reflective links to modern responsibility and inclusion. The Upper Secondary assembly delivers a more analytical exploration of genocide, propaganda, human rights and the enduring significance of memory, asking students to consider their part in confronting prejudice today. This pack is suitable for schools seeking a high-quality, professionally written resource that supports thoughtful, meaningful commemoration across age groups while meeting curriculum and pastoral needs.

This lesson contains: A starter to consider what students already know about the Holocaust. Students then draw a mind map to gather ideas about why they study it, what happened and when and to whom. A video from YouTube which consolidates this and allows students to add to their knowledge. A slide then has suggested responses for some green pen work. An activity to study 3 interpretations of the word ‘Holocaust’ and students find common factors between them, making their own definition at the bottom of the worksheet. An introduction to stereotypes and students can annotate the picture of a Jewish stereotype. This will allow later study of German propaganda against the Jews. Students also have some slides to see on modern stereotypes which may interest them, before looking at how the Nazis then portrayed them. A plenary to describe two features of the Jewish stereotype. Attachments: 1 x Powerpoint Presentation 1 x Word File 1 x Publisher File

This lesson contains: A starter that asks students to study a source image of Jews cleaning the streets. they are asked analytical questions about it and will return to the image later. An overview of the key words for the lesson, which are ‘perpetrators’, ‘collaborators’, ‘bystanders’ and ‘resisters’. There is then a chance for students to make notes on each as you go through the next 4 slides with images. A task to return to the source and judge who they believe in the picture fall into each of the categories. The extension is to consider why it’s sometimes hard to decide on the difference between those doing and those collaborating. A colour-coding activity to look at a series of scenarios and judge what category of guilt they are to be placed in. An extension of this task to then map the numbers of each scenario on a plot graph to note the impact of each and the level of ‘active’ or ‘non active’ each scenario showed. this can lead to greater analysis of the consequences of different peoples’ actions. A review of the learning. Attachments: 1 x Powerpoint Presentation 1 x Word File

This resource pack contains + 1x Assembly and 1 x tutor time PPT that can extend over two sessions . All PowerPoints are fully resourced with YouTube links and activities to discuss the topic in question. The Holocaust Assembly pack contains a PPT (12 Slides) with an A4 information sheet and a handout for you to make notes on each slide should you so wish. The Holocaust Assembly and Tutor Time The assembly introduces pupils to the holocaust what happened during this time. It includes a link to a YouTube clips educating them on this. This resource includes inspirational quote and an OPTIONAL Christian prayer. It also has a link to the ‘Never Again’ song-This can be played as the pupils leave assembly. The Holocaust Tutor Time pack contains 1 x Fully Resourced PPT (10 slides in total) Worksheet (1 A4 sheet) The Topics to be discussed are: A YouTube link on a cartoon version of an individual’s experience of the Holocaust A place mat for them to record questions and information A reflective quote A YouTube link on what we can do in the modern age to end prejudice. One of our interactive plenaries The Holocaust resource booklet to accompany this pack contains a placemat for pupils to work on. If you review this resource we will give you another resource of the same value for FREE. We hope that you enjoy this resource! We would love your feedback, if you like what you see, please follow us: on Tes TeachElite’s Shop click the’Follow this Author button’ . We will keep you updated on any sales we throw or FREEBIES we upload. You can find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TeachEliteRE and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeachElite/

The Holocaust The aims of this lesson are to explain how Jewish people rose in rebellion or resisted against Nazi atrocities during the Holocaust. The first part of the lesson examines the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, using a thinking quilt to challenge ideas and ask key questions about the motivation and determination to succeed against overwhelming odds. The second part of the lesson analyses resistance in the extermination camps in particular events in Sobibor, Treblinka and Auschwitz. Students are then asked to justify the best and most effective ways to resist from passive to active resistance. Finally a find and fix activity checks understanding and the learning in the lesson. The central enquiry of this and subsequent lessons in the bundle is to ask who was to blame for the Holocaust? Students will map out their ideas each lesson (which can be plotted in different colours or dates to show the progress of their learning and centred around a lightbulb) and build up a picture of how difficult it is to blame a single individual or event for this catastrophe. The resource comes in PowerPoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change. I have also included suggested teaching strategies to deliver the lesson.

School assembly for secondary schools for Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 - theme “Bridging Generations”. I delivered this every day to years 7 to 11. It was very well received by pupils and staff. Gives scale of the Holocaust in numbers, the stages of the Holocaust, and German laws which led to the dehumanisation, ostracisation and ultimately the mass murder. The chain of events is covered with Pastor Martin Niemoller’s poem “First They Came…”, followed by the stages of the Holocaust as described by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Pupils are then asked to think about how the German anti-Jewish laws put in place from 1933 to 1939 would have affected them. Assembly finishes with images of victims and their names, ages and hometowns. Original photo image and a larger, colorised image to enhance. The victims are from a wide range across Europe. Assembly host asks the audience to repeat their names in unison. For younger years, Call and Response their names. For older, more reluctant audiences, quietly reflect on the victims and say their names in private later. No atrocity or graphic images are included.

This lesson contains: A starter with a ‘math’ question from Nazi Germany to get students thinking about the effect that such messages would have had on the acceptance of violence towards Jews. An activity to complete a knowledge organiser worksheet as you lead them through the powerpoint, covering: * The Prophecy speech * Increased number of Jews under Nazi control * Madagascar Plan * The Wannsee Conference (with 2 videos from YouTube that shows what happened and what was decided). * Where the Holocaust took place * What happened at the camps * Death through work and gas chambers * Auschwitz as a short study. * A final plenary to consider the human impact of Auschwitz. Attachments: 1 x Powerpoint Presentation 1 x Publisher File

Year 8 RE/History Lesson: Dietrich Bonhoeffer – How Did Faith Shape His Resistance to Hitler? This lesson explores the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian pastor who stood up to the Nazis and paid with his life. Pupils learn how Bonhoeffer’s faith inspired him to protect Jews, oppose injustice, and join a secret plot to stop Hitler. They reflect on his courage and the belief that Christians must act against evil. Activities include guided reading, comprehension questions, a timeline comic strip of his resistance, an “emotions map,” and reflection writing on standing up for justice today. Learning aims: Describe who Dietrich Bonhoeffer was and what he did Explain how his Christian faith shaped his choices and resistance Reflect on the risks and sacrifices involved in standing up to tyranny Evaluate why Bonhoeffer is remembered as an example of faith and courage Includes PowerPoint slides, creative tasks, multiple-choice quizzes, and structured writing activities ready to teach.

This lesson contains: A ‘do it now’ starter based on previous learning on the course, but this can be edited to suit what you have taught. An introduction to the idea of resistance and how it manifests. Students can explore types of resistance that can be done other than force. They then get introduced to some images of resistance in the ghettos, then discuss a ‘word wall’ with different ways the Jews resisted. Students categorise them as giving hope, morale or those preserving values and beliefs. An overview of the difficulties faced when trying to escape from concentration camps. Students examine an excerpt and write down 3 reasons escape was hard. They then give specific examples from the next slide. A guided reading task on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with questions around the outsides, differentiated to show where the information can be found. A plenary to explain what resistance meant to Jewish people and what it means to them also. Attachments: 1 x Powerpoint Presentation 1 x Publisher File

Description Whole-School Assembly for UK Secondary Schools | KS3 KS4 KS5 Deliver a powerful, respectful and professionally sensitive Holocaust Memorial Day assembly for UK secondary schools, based on the official 2026 theme: Bridging Generations. This fully scripted, ready-to-deliver assembly helps students understand: • What Holocaust Memorial Day is • Why remembrance matters as survivor voices are disappearing • How memory, testimony and responsibility pass from generation to generation • Why the lessons of the Holocaust still matter today It is carefully written to be suitable for whole-school delivery and to be politically impartial, safeguarding-aware and appropriate for KS3, KS4 and KS5. It also includes clear staff guidance on how to handle sensitive questions about current conflicts, including Palestine and Gaza, in a calm, balanced and non-political way. What’s Included • Fully scripted Holocaust Memorial Day assembly (no prep needed) • Slides and speaker notes covering: o The Holocaust and Holocaust Memorial Day o The 2026 theme: Bridging Generations o Why memory and testimony matter o A powerful Anne Frank slide o A safe present-day relevance section focusing on warning signs such as dehumanisation and hatred • Staff guidance slide and notes for handling sensitive comments about: o Israel, Palestine and Gaza o Current conflicts o Genocide language • Reflection moment and closing message • Fully Editable • Suitable for KS3, KS4 and KS5 Ideal For • Holocaust Memorial Day assemblies • UK secondary schools • Form time, tutor time or year group assemblies • RS, History and Personal Development (PSHE ) • Schools wanting a safe, non-political, high-quality, ready-to-use assembly resource Why Teachers Choose This Assembly • Avoids controversial political positions • Does not compare current conflicts to the Holocaust • Does not use contested genocide labels • Focuses on remembrance, human dignity, responsibility and challenging prejudice and hatred

We are delighted to introduce our latest teaching resource - “The Holocaust Worksheet.” This comprehensive resource is designed to facilitate meaningful lessons on one of the most devastating events in human history. Key Features: Educational Content: The worksheet provides detailed information about the Holocaust, including key events, causes, and consequences. It aims to deepen students’ understanding of this dark period in history. Critical Thinking Exercises: Engage your students with thought-provoking questions that encourage critical thinking and reflection on the impact of the Holocaust. Cross-Curricular Connections: Explore the interdisciplinary nature of the Holocaust with suggested links to subjects such as English, Art, and Religious Studies. Assessment Tools: Evaluate students’ comprehension with included quizzes and discussion prompts. Monitor their progress and understanding of the topic. Please note that the PDF is non-editable to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the content is maintained. We trust that “The Holocaust Worksheet” will enrich your history curriculum and empower your students to engage critically with this pivotal moment in history. Thank you for your commitment to education and for instilling a sense of reverence for the past in the minds of future generations.

This Genocide lesson investigates what life was like in a Jewish ghetto, including housing, food, health and work. Students also look at the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, information sheet with sources and mindmap, a consolidation explain question and two plenaries. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. This lesson can be used along with our lessons on ‘Nazi laws’ and ‘concentration camps’, which can be found as a bundle at the bottom of this page. This lesson can also be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘Genocide’ which also includes Holocaust Nazi laws, concentration camps, as well as genocide in Rwanda, Cambodia and Bosnia. Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!

This is a detailed workbook that can be used alongside lessons or for homework for students. The workbook includes the following topics: What was the Holocaust? Historic antisemitism Jewish life in the 1930 How did the Nazis make Jews non-citizens? How did Nazi persecution change in World War II? Who were the non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust? Who were the perpetrators of the Holocaust? What can we learn about resistance to the Holocaust? What happened to survivors and perpetrators after the war? The workbook gives detailed overviews and can be used in activities when teaching about the Holocaust.

A reading comprehension using texts telling the life story of holocaust survivors.  Contains differentiated texts and questions with content domain references.

An inspiring way to teach the Holocaust through Art. Activities focus on degenerate art , banned by the Nazis, art looted by the Nazis, and art created as a response to the Holocaust. We hope you will use this to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2014.

This powerpoint presentation is perfect for a short assembly or less on the holocaust and why we should remember it. The presentation consists of 8 slides Packed with information and stats, this presentation is sure to teach students the harsh reality of what happened during the holocaust and who was held responsible for the genocide of the six million Jewish people. importance of holocaust memorial day history of the holocaust Concentration camps Personal stories Night of broken glass Nuremberg trials Holocaust memorial day in schools We would greatly appreciate a 5 star review, it helps us carry on creating free resources like this Who are Phillips Resources? At Phillips Resources it is our aim to make learning and teaching as effortless as possible by designing and distributing the highest quality resources for teachers. parents and students.

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