Having produced IWM’s new Holocaust Learning Programme for secondary school students, I had spent some time with Anita. LW: "This jacket belonged to Leibish Engelberg when he was a prisoner in the concentration camp system. So it only takes six weeks for the Einsatzgruppen to move from shooting military-age men to shooting women and children.

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That safe space for teachers to bring their students, wherein they can ask questions, they can have those genuine encounters with objects in the past. And when IWM put the film together, when they screened it in cinemas as it was shown at the time, there was somebody who came on at the start and said, you know, you know, member of staff, member of the team, who would go on and say, you know, this is really difficult, and if you want to leave then you should, and people did.Defeats in 1941 had deprived the Soviet Union of 40% of its coal and steel and 32% of its industrial workforce. They learn that Anita was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau at the age of 18, where she was recruited into the women’s orchestra at the camp as the cellist. And I mean, I've been teaching for 11 years and it's something that I’m still really keen to make sure that I think really carefully about, and that I get right. But nevertheless, they are experiential spaces; we feel in them and by feeling, our responses to the content around us changes, and we think about things differently. The homes that they had come from that they've been forced out of or taken from aren't theirs anymore.

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She exchanged some of this bread for the jumper now on display and wore it both day and night to protect herself against the harsh winter – hidden underneath her camp uniform. The destruction of the USS Arizona accounted for almost half the lives lost during the entire attack on Pearl Harbor. Make sure you watch Part Two, where we'll be exploring how teachers in the classroom can now start to think about how they might use images in teaching about the Holocaust.In reality, the number of people leaving fluctuated – finding places to go was difficult and the costs of doing so were high.

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The group of refugees arrived from Prague airport on Stirling bombers, touching down at the aerodrome at Crosby on Eden in Cumberland, where they began their long recuperation. And looming over him there's this, kind of, this, a man, you know, there's some bullish grotesque man who's sort of peering down on him. And the consensus really widely aligned with your kind of hypothetical student voice, which was to say: but these exist, and so people need to see them and understand them. As the UK’s leading authority on the public understanding of war and conflict, and custodian of the national collection for the Holocaust, IWM has used its world-renowned insight and expertise to create new Second World War and The Holocaust Galleries at IWM London.

It is the story of the first defining act of the greatest crime in history, a holocaust of bullets that preceded the holocaust of gas. A 783kg V-1 flying bomb is suspended between the two new galleries, presenting a striking symbol of how the Holocaust and the Second World War are interconnected. The three part series for BBC Four and iPlayer, The US and the Holocaust, directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, examines how the American people and their leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century.