Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January 2023 

Holocaust Memorial Day is an annual reminder to remain vigilant to the horrors that people can inflict on each other. However, it is also an opportunity to remind everyone of the detail of past events that can sometimes seem too big to comprehend. This year the theme is Ordinary People and it will help us to remember that the victims of genocide are ordinary people with ordinary lives, while those who commit genocide and initiate it are also ordinary people. Their ordinariness is one of the things that make those who carry out and enable genocide all the more chilling, and provides us all with a learning point that can help us take facts from the past to help us look carefully at the present.  

You can listen to a recording of our 2023 and 2022 Holocaust Memorial Day webinars:

• 2023 recorded webinar: Ordinary People
• 2022 recorded webinar: Using 'One Day' to explore the actions that helped to lead to the Holocaust and actions of genocide
  
  

General resources

• Why does the massacre of the Armenians in the First World War still get overlooked?, Paula Kitching (Virtual Branch recording) 
• Anti-semitism and the Holocaust, Sarah Newman (Historian article)
• Nazi aggression: planned or improvised?, Hendrik Karsten Hogrefe (Historian article)

Secondary resources

• Teaching controversial histories: The Holocaust (podcast)
• Integrating the historical Holocaust, Sam Ineson (Teaching History article) 
• Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust, Stuart Farley (Teaching History article)
• How ‘good’ are Key Stage 3 textbooks in supporting the teaching of the Holocaust?, Alex Diamond (Teaching History article) 

Primary resources

• Is there a place for the Holocaust in the Primary Curriculum?, Martin Winstone (Primary History article)
• ‘So why did they go into hiding?’ Anne Frank in her historical and social context, Darius Jackson (Primary History article)
• Teaching controversial history at primary school (podcast)