Resources for Schools

Holocaust (54 seconds) - Dr. David Silberklang, Yad Vashem answers, “What is the Holocaust?”. Watch video

• AI and the Holocaust: rewriting History? The impact of artificial intelligence on understanding the Holocaust, UNESCO, 2024
• EU Handbook for the practical use of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism
• IHRA Reflections on Terminology for Holocaust Comparison
• Refugee Voices, The Association of Jewish Refugees
• The Holocaust Educational Trust’s ‘Guide for Primary School Teachers’. Download (PDF)
• Understanding and Teaching Holocaust Education, Cowan, P. and Maitles, H. (2017) London:Sage
• Teaching Controversial Issues in the Classroom, London: Continuum, Cowan, P. and Maitles, H. (eds.)(2012)
• IHRA Recommendations on Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust - developed by the IHRA’s international education experts, these recommendations aim to provide fact-based and educationally sound techniques for teaching the complex and nuanced history of the Holocaust.
• The Wiener Holocaust Library - The Holocaust explained: The Complete Introduction to the Holocaust designed for school.
• Painting for my Life: The Holocaust artworks of Marianne Grant (2021) - this book provides insight into the significance and meaning of Marianne’s art and to the historical context. It is a welcome addition to school libraries and a useful resource for secondary teachers, particularly those teaching Art, History and Modern Studies.
• Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism (2024) (PDF) - non-binding guidelines that have been endorsed by dozens of countries, that include the UK.
• Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism (2024) - intended to help Canadian educators recognise and combat antisemitism in various settings, this resource is useful for educators in Scotland and elsewhere. 
• IHRA Recommendations for Teaching and Learning about the Persecution and Genocide of the Roma during the Nazi Era (2024)
• Addressing Antisemitism Through Education (UNESCO and OSCE, 2018)
  • For primary teachers
  • For secondary teachers
  • For vocational education teachers

• The Kindertransports - this edition of Prism contains many interesting articles that can support IDL in this area. Auld Lang Syne: The Experiences of the Kinder in Scotland, focuses on the Scottish context. (pp. 24-29). Download (PDF)
• Gathering the Voices website - this website contains online oral testimony from men and women who sought sanctuary in Scotland to escape the Holocaust.
• Scottish Jewish Archive Centre - situated in the centre of Glasgow, the Scottish Jewish Archive Centre collects and preserves material relating to the Jewish experience in Scotland over the past 200 years. This includes material during the Holocaust.
• The Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre - opened in 2021, the Centre is designed to support school visits and to assist researchers and visitors of all kinds. In the display, visitors will find out how people and organisations throughout the country helped the refugees who came to Scotland from Nazi-occupied Europe. 
• Jewish Survivor Ernest Levy - USC Shoah Foundation- Holocaust Testimony (2 hours, 38minutes), film from the Shoah Foundation of the testimony of Rev Ernest Levy (1925 to 2009) a Holocaust survivor who came to live in Scotland. 
• Marianne Grant on the BBC - audio recording from the BBC (53 minutes, 53 seconds). Presenter Johnstone McKay speaks to Marianne Grant (1921 to 2007), a Holocaust survivor who came to live in Scotland.
• Courage: 60 Years of the UN Refugee Convention - this video (2 minutes) features two people who have come to Scotland in very different circumstances. One of these is Rosa Sacharin, who came to Scotland on one of the Kindertransports. Video unavailable.
• Jane Haining: The Scot who died in Auschwitz - a BBC film presented by Sally Magnusson (29 minutes). Jane Haining (1897 to 1944), a Church of Scotland missionary, who is the only Scot honoured for risking her life to save Jews during the Holocaust. 
• The Unwanted Jew by R.M. Sacharin, (2014) Tullibody: Diadem Books
• Ramaswamy, C. (2022) Homelands: The history of a friendship, Edinburgh:  Canongate

Holocaust Survivors

• Remembering, Rev. Ernest Levy, OBE, cantor teacher and author (1925 to 2009)
  • Film (2012, 16minutes) - watch here.
  • Obituary (Scotsman, 2009).
• Remembering Marianne Grant  (1921 to 2007)
  • Newsclip of the launch of the Marianne Grant schools’ resource in 2002 (click here.)
  • Audio and transcript of Marianne’s daughter, Geraldine Shenkin talking about her late mother (3mins).
  • Obituary (Herald, 2007).
• Remembering Rosa Sacharin (1925 to 2019)
  • From “unwanted Jew” to “a brighter professional future”: Kinder girls and the nursing profession in wartime Britain by Jane Brooks ( Jewish Historical  Studies, 2019, Vol 15: 68-85)
• Remembering Ingrid Wuga BEM (1924 to 2020)
  • Obituary (Herald, 2020)
  • Ingrid Wuga – Life Before The War – Gathering The Voices Scotland
• Remembering Henry Waugh MBE (1924 to 2024)
  • Henry Wuga: Holocaust survivor who fled to Scotland dies aged 100 - BBC News
• Remembering Judith Rosenberg (1921 to 2021)
  • Obituary (Herald, 2021)

ANTISEMITISM

• The UK Government’s definition of antisemitism is based on the following working definition adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
• Addressing Antisemitism Through Education (2018) - European Guidelines from UNESCO and OSCE. Download (PDF)

• Addressing Antisemitism Through Education (UNESCO and OSCE, 2018).

  • For primary teachers

  • For secondary teachers

  • For vocational education teachers

HOLOCAUST DENIAL

• The working definition of Holocaust denial and distortion adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Download (PDF)
• Antisemitism (14.52 minutes) - You can choose to watch all the sections or choose one from the menu on the left. Antisemitism today (found at 12.10 minutes, 2.42 minutes in length) is particularly interesting and has specific relevance for responsible citizenship. Watch video
• Holocaust Denial (15.35 minutes) - TED Talk by Professor Deborah Lipstadt - Behind the Lies of Holocaust Denial. Watch video

• Holocaust Testimony UK - free portal of interviews with survivors, refugees, rescuers and liberators
• My Hometown Explore - international school projects that include two from Scotland.
• The Holocaust National Archives - key documents with teacher notes 
• The UK Holocaust Map - learn about your local connections to the Holocaust
• The Wiener Holocaust Library - leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era and genocide.

• Every Name Counts - building a digital memorial to the victims of Nazism, Arolsen Archives 
• Testimony 360 - students interact with a Holocaust survivor’s testimony, and by using virtual reality, explore historical sites associated with the Holocaust, The Holocaust Educational Trust 
• The Holocaust, Their Family, Me and Us - diverse and inclusive Holocaust education project that is based on the BBC documentary.