Holocaust Memorial Day
We are thrilled to be working once again with The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust on a series of events to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, in January 2018.
Each two hour event features a talk from a survivor, alongside a screening of the BAFTA nominated Children Of The Holocaust, directed by Kath Shackleton.
Unable to make the event? Scroll down for films available for private screenings Mon-Fri at 10am (subject to availability).
Children of the Holocaust + talk from Holocaust survivor
Screenings will take place at the following cinemas and dates:
Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool 15 Jan 10:15
Clapham Picturehouse 16 Jan, 10:15
Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge 16 Jan, 10:15
Duke of Yorks, Brighton 16 Jan 10:15
Stratford East Picturehouse 18 Jan, 10:15
The Cameo, Edinburgh 19 Jan 10:15
Director: Kath Shackleton. UK. 30 min + 90 mins talk.
This event will consist of a screening of Children Of The Holocaust - a series of recorded oral testimonies from Holocaust survivors about their childhood experiences, turned into short animated films. The films show how people experienced the Holocaust and Nazi occupation in several different European countries and will give your students a nuanced and intimate insight to the history of the Holocaust.
After the films a survivor speaker will talk about their own experiences and there will be time for your students to ask them questions.
Start time: 10.15am (please arrive 15 minutes earlier)
Suitability: KS3 & KS4 | Subjects: English, History, Citizenship, Religious Studies, PSHE
Event length: 150 mins (30 min film + 90 min survivor talk)
Price: £4.00 per student. Free for accompanying staff (1:10 ratio).
Booking Deadline: Mon 9 Jan
Here are some more details on the speakers who will be sharing their stories:
LADY MILENA GRENFELL-BAINES (FACT Liverpool,15 Jan, 10:15):
Lady Milena was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929. Her father was recommended to leave Czechoslovakia the day before the Nazi’s invaded, because he was both Jewish, and a supporter of an anti-Nazi author. He was able to escape but left his wife and children behind. When she was 9 years old Lady Milena and her younger sister Eva were able to leave Prague on a special train as part of the Kindertransport, arranged by Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children in this way. Lady Milena and her sister were cared for by a local family until their mother was able to arrive, one year later, having escaped via Norway. The family were thus all reunited. You can read a full version of Lady Milena’s life story here: hmd.org.uk/resources/stories/lady-milena-grenfell-baines
ZIGI SHIPPER BEM (Clapham, 16 Jan, 10:15)
Zigi Shipper was born in 1930 in Poland. He had a happy and comfortable childhood, attending a Jewish school and spending time with his cousins and friends. This happy life ended abruptly when the Germans led by the Nazi Party invaded Poland and consequently, started the Second World War in 1939.
Starting in 1939, Jews were forced to leave their home and moved into a ghetto. Zigi was resettled to Łódź. Soon after he arrived, he started to work in a metal factory. After four years Zigi was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and then onto a number of labour camps until he was eventually liberated by the British Army on 3 May 1945. After war, he went to England to live with his mother.
BERND KOSCHLAND MBE (Cambridge, 16 Jan 10:15):
Bernd was born in Germany in 1931 into an orthodox Jewish family. He lived through the growing severity of Nazi persecution of the Jews. In 1939 Bernd’s parents decided to send him to England as part of the Kindertransport programme. Upon arrival, Bernd was taken to live in a boys’ hostel in Margate where he had to learn English. When war broke out Bernd was no longer able to communicate with his parents and was evacuated to live with a family in Staffordshire. After the war, Bernd remained in England and trained to become a minister and later a teacher. You can read a full version of Bernd’s life story here: hmd.org.uk/resources/stories/bernd-koschland
DORIT OLIVER-WOLFF (Duke of York's, Brighton, 16 Jan 10:15)
Dorit Oliver-Wolff was born a Hungarian Jew. She danced in front of the future king of Yugoslavia at just four years old; but by six years old she was living in hiding from the German soldiers who were rounding up and transporting her fellow Jews to concentration camps around Europe.
After the war she weighed three stone, had lost all her hair and was too weak to stand up. Dorit has written about her remarkable life in a book, From Yellow Star to Pop Star. She is an experienced public speaker and human rights campaigner.
MALA TRIBICH MBE (Hackney, 18 Jan, 10:15)
Mala Tribich was born in 1930 in Poland. In 1939, Mala and her family were forced to move to the newly established ghetto in her hometown, which was notorious for its horrible conditions.
When the ghetto was liquidated, Mala became a slave labourer until November 1944, when the remaining Jews were deported. Mala was separated from the rest of her family and sent first to Ravensbrück concentration camp and then to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Mala was very ill when she was liberated from Bergen-Belsen. She came to England in 1947 and was reunited with the only member of her close family who survived, her brother, Ben.
STEVEN FRANK (Stratford East, 18 Jan, 10:15)
Steven Frank was born in 1935 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, into a Jewish family. His family life changed drastically when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940. His father refused to flee and instead spoke out against the Nazis in public. The Nazis arrested and interrogated him, as well as the rest of the family. Consequently, Steven and his family members were sent to transit camps. Eventually, in 1944, he was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp where conditions were appalling; disease and hunger were prevalent. However, Steven’s mother managed to find ways to get extra food and helped her sons to be one of the 93 out of 15,000 children who survived the camp. Fortunately for Steven, the war ended before they were deported to Auschwitz. After the war Steven, his brothers and mother moved to England to try and rebuild their lives.
LADY MILENA GRENFELL-BAINES (Cameo, Edinburgh, 19 Jan 10:15):
Henry Martin Wuga was born in Nuremburg, Germany in 1924 and lived through the years of growing Nazi persecution including the attacks on Jewish property on Kristallnacht in 1938. In 1939 he was sent to Glasgow on the Kindertransport, where he found a warm and welcoming home. He was later evacuated to Perth. In 1940 he was arrested for ‘corresponding with the enemy’ as he had been sending letters to his parents, via uncles in Paris and Brussels. He was declared a category A Dangerous Enemy Alien at the High Court in Edinburgh and spent 10 months in a series of Internment Camps ending up in the Isle of Man. After the war, Henry married Ingrid Wolff, a fellow Kindertransportee and they settled in Glasgow. His mother also joined them, having survived the war, hidden in Germany. After a successful career in the catering industry, Henry now enjoys his retirement with Ingrid his family and has been awarded an MBE for Services to Sport for Disabled People.
The below films are also available for private screenings Mon-Fri at 10am (subject to availability).
The Book Thief (12)
Director: Brian Percival. UK. 2014. 130 mins. Drama
Based on the novel by Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief tells the story of a young girl and her foster parents, who decide to shelter a Jewish friend during the period of Nazi control of Germany.
Suitability: KS3&4 and AS/A2 | Subjects: English, History, Citizenship, Religious Studies, PSHE
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Sarah's Key (12)
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner. France. 2011. 104 mins. Drama
Drama about Julia, a journalist investigating the Vichy government's 1942 mass arrest and subsequent deportation of 13,000 Jewish citizens, known as the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup. She uncovers the story behind the life of a ten year old Jewish girl, Sarah, who lived with her family in the apartment that Julia and her husband have been renovating.
Suitability: KS3&4 and AS/A2 | Subjects: English, History, Citizenship, Religious Studies, PSHE
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
My Nazi Legacy (PG)
Director: David Evans. UK. 2015. 94 mins. Documentary
MY NAZI LEGACY is a documentary that brings together the sons of two infamous Nazi war criminals with human rights lawyer Philippe Sands, who lost several members of his own family in the Holocaust.
Suitability: KS3&4 and AS/A2 | Subjects: English, History, Citizenship, Religious Studies, PSHE
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
The Children Who Cheated The Nazis (12)
Director: Sue Read. UK. 2000. 50 mins. Documentary
The story of how 10,000 children escaped the Holocaust via the Kindertransport. It documents their harrowing journey to England, the forgotten heroes who made their escape possible, the love and caring of strangers and the resilience of the children.
Suitability: KS3&4 and AS/A2 | Subjects: English, History, Citizenship, Religious Studies, PSHE
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Au Revoir Les Enfants (12)
Director: Louis Malle. France 1987. 100 mins. Drama
Based on the director's own childhood experiences, this French drama is set in a boarding school for boys in occupied France during the Second World War, where three young Jewish boys are hidden by the headmaster.
Suitability: KS3&4 and AS/A2 | Subjects: English, History, Citizenship, Religious Studies, PSHE
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
The Power of Good (PG)
Director: Matej Mináč. Hungary. 2003. 98 mins. Documentary
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and August 2, 1939, Nicholas Winton organised 8 transports to take refugee children from Prague to new homes in Great Britain, and kept quiet about it until his wife discovered a scrapbook documenting his unique mission in 1988.
Suitability: KS3&4 and AS/A2 | Subjects: English, History, Citizenship, Religious Studies, PSHE
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).