You can engage with our exhibitions, collections and survivor testimony from your own home or classroom.

During our online educator-led visits we aim to develop knowledge and understanding of the experiences of Jewish people in Europe from 1933-45 and examine the process of genocide to highlight the importance of respect, and the consequences of choices made by individuals. Ultimately we hope for them to reflect on what it means to them and how they can be Upstanders in the world today.

As well as exploring individual stories and our museum’s special collection, these programmes include a live webinar with a Holocaust survivor. We have been running live webinars with Holocaust survivors and pupils from local schools since lockdown began and have found them successful in providing a unique opportunity for pupils to still ‘meet’ a survivor and ask questions in a small group.  The sessions take place online, with a Holocaust survivor, one of our educators as a facilitator, a teacher from your school and a group of students.

Option 1: Interactive online visit to the National Holocaust Centre and Museum

The virtual visit is a 3-hour programme but can be broken up into flexible sessions according to your needs.

Pre lesson
Key question: What was the Holocaust? What was lost?
Lesson: Survivor Pre-war Jewish life photograph activity.

Interactive online visit

Part A: Educator led (1 hour)
Key question: Who was responsible for the Holocaust?

This new learning programmes shines a light on the Jewish experience of Nazi rule through our unique collection of survivor testimony and special artefacts from our museum that have not previously been seen by our secondary visitors.
This will include:

• Survivor and artefact session. This follows the chronology of the Holocaust and is told using the
  artefacts we have in our collection at the Centre.
• Challenges and conclusions
•  Key questions, debate and opinions will be encouraged from all students using an interactive platform.

Part B: Survivor Webinar (1 hour)
Key question: Who experienced the Holocaust? Survivor testimony.
Webinar with a survivor. With each survivor we will focus on their unique experience and the complex situations they and their families had to face. Time will be allocated for the students to ask the survivor any questions which they might have.

Part C: Educator led (1 hour)
Key question: Could the Holocaust happen today?
This will ask students to consider hatred today and consider what their role is to combat it in the future.
Themes include: Hate crime, refugee experience, extremism, remembrance, fake news and antisemitism plus asking the important question, what can we do?

Post lessons
Includes online tutorials about Upstanders

Only £150 for this three hour session

Please contact us at [email protected] for further information and to book your session.

*Using the platform Zoom or others, if preferred.

Option 2: Webinar with a Holocaust survivor

“When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.” Elie Wiesel Holocaust Survivor

After a successful summer of webinars delivered by twelve different survivors to 48 schools all over the UK, the survivors are keen to do it again. This programme focuses on their individual story and enables students to engage with someone who experienced the Holocaust.

Pre lesson
Key question: What was the Holocaust? What was lost?
Lesson: Survivor Pre-war Jewish life photograph activity.

Online webinar with a Holocaust survivor

This will include:

• Educator led introduction that sets the survivors story in context. 
• A one hour survivor testimony session with question and answer session.
• Educator led challenges and conclusions session reflecting on what the Holocaust means for us today.

Post lesson

A self-guided one hour lesson that can be done at home about the choices people were making during the Holocaust

This comprehensive package is available for £150

This session is suitable for larger groups.

Please contact us at [email protected] for further information and to book your session.

“I have learnt that although the Holocaust is something that we study about the past, we can use this experience in guiding ourselves in how to deal with modern day issues.” Ellesmere Park pupil after taking part in a live webinar with a Holocaust survivor.

*Using the platform Zoom or others, if preferred.