Educational Services

Resources

Educational resources developed at the Holocaust Centre include books, films, CD-ROMS, posters and websites.

Download a copy of our latest Resources Catalogue here.

Key classroom resources

The Centre recommends five key resources for classroom use when dealing with issues from the Holocaust:

• Learning about the Holocaust, (The Holocaust Centre, 2001).  A highly accessible overview of the main causes, events and implications of the Holocaust.  An excellent introduction to the subject for any reader.
• The Holocaust and Genocide: Why Does It Happen? (Aegis Trust in association with Hodder Murray, 2004).  A fully interactive CD-ROM and cross-curricular resource aimed at 13-16-year-olds.  It provides extensive coverage of the Holocaust and draws comparisons with events in Rwanda and the Balkans, enabling effective integration into RE and Citizenship lessons.
• Survival: Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Story (The Holocaust Centre, 2003). This popular publication provides short introductions to the Centre’s team of survivor speakers and covers the whole range of survivors’ experiences: concentration and death camps, death marches, ghettoes, resistance, hidden children, refugees and Kindertransportees.
•  How Was It Humanly Possible? A Study of Perpetrators and Bystanders during the Holocaust (Yad Vashem and the Holocaust Centre, 2002).
•  Holocaust History and Rescuers Poster Sets, 2002 and 2005. 

Contemporary issues

The Refuge Project is an excellent way of linking lessons from the Holocaust to contemporary issues.

Refuge: Learning about Refugees with Refugees is a comprehensive education pack containing 19 short films, refugee testimony, a teachers’ guide, lessons guidelines, worksheets and documents.  An invaluable resource to approach issues relating to refugees and asylum-seekers. Read review on School Zone.