Year 9 visited the Imperial War Museum on Monday 7 November. They were involved in workshops and visited galleries pertaining to both World Wars and the Holocaust.
Personal stories are now at the heart of the new Holocaust Galleries, along with a breadth of objects and original material that help audiences consider the cause, course, and consequences of this terrible period in world history. Individual stories from some of the six million Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust are told through over 2000 photos, books, artworks and letters, and personal objects ranging from jewellery and clothing to toys and musical instruments.
Pupils explored, with the help of a guide, the three core themes of persecution, looking at the global situation at the end of the First World War; escalation, identifying how violence towards Jewish people and communities developed through the 1930s; and annihilation, examining how Nazi policy crossed the threshold into wide-scale state-sponsored murder in the heart of twentieth century Europe.
