Thanks to the generous funding from The Association of Jewish Refugees, The National Holocaust Centre & Museum are excited to be able to offer an outreach programme which focuses on the rise of antisemitism in the 1930's and ends with looking at the Kindertransport and the Holocaust. It makes links between the prejudice and discrimination of the 1930s and 1940s and the current day.

The programme is funded for secondary schools with 30% or more pupils in receipt of the Pupil Premium. Tuition is free – we just ask that schools cover our expenses. These expenses would be shared amongst the schools taking part and would cover subsistence, travel and accommodation. We envisage them being around £170 per school.

We will be able to deliver to one school each day in the week beginning Monday 22 January 2024. The programme can be delivered in several ways to suit your school and is open to KS3. An educator could deliver sessions of two and a half hours in a morning or afternoon to groups of up to 60 students in a hall or we can offer a shortened one session to be delivered to multiple classes throughout the day.

Please see below an outline of what is covered in our sessions:

• The programme follows the journey of a German Jewish refugee called Leo.
• Students will learn about the development of antisemitism throughout history and how prejudice and discrimination developed in the 1930's which led to the events of the Holocaust. They will link this to the current day.
• They will do this through listening to Leo describe what is going on in his life in 1938, as well as investigating historical sources and hearing some sections of testimony from our Holocaust survivors. 
• Students will consider how ordinary people made choices that impacted upon Jewish people in Germany. They will learn about what other countries did, or didn't do, to help Jewish refugees and consider the importance of the Holocaust today.

Contact Mariel.kirton@walthamforest.gov.uk for more information.