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Posted on July 15th 2024
Year 9 History Trip to Imperial War Museum
A group of Year 10 pupils visited the Imperial War Museum earlier in July to participate in a Holocaust learning workshop.
On arrival, a member of the museum staff encouraged pupils to share their prior learning about the Holocaust and to consider the terminology they already knew around it.
The facilitator drew attention to the Hebrew word ‘Shoah’, which is often used by Jewish people (meaning ‘catastrophe’ or ‘calamity’). A key part of the visit was then going through the Holocaust exhibition with digital devices that enabled small groups of pupils to interact with the exhibition together.
Year 9 pupils stand by a section of the Berlin Wall outside the Imperial War Museum; the Cold War will form part of their studies in GCSE History.
Powerful visit
The exhibition traced the lives of Jewish people in Europe before Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, foregrounding individual stories. It then showed the rise to power of the Nazis, the ways in which Jewish people became outcasts from society in Germany, and the escalation in the persecution and annihilation of the Jewish people in Europe.
It was an incredibly powerful visit that enabled pupils to see a wealth of sources beyond the classroom; these helped them to better grasp the suffering that the Holocaust tragically inflicted upon so many lives.
