Soviet Prisoners of War notes
Teaching notes on the content and usage of the 'Soviet prisoners of war' section of the resource, together with advice on the pedagogical challenges and conceptual issues it raises.
Teaching notes on the content and usage of the 'Soviet prisoners of war' section of the resource, together with advice on the pedagogical challenges and conceptual issues it raises.
Why do international laws exist? What can happen when they are ignored? How should soldiers who are captured by those they are fighting be treated?
Konstantin Alexandrovich Shilov was born in Bugulma in Russia in 1913 and, like millions of other Russians of his generation, he experienced great hardship during his childhood.
Teaching notes on the content and usage of the 'Persecution of Poles' section of the resource, together with advice on the pedagogical challenges and conceptual issues it raises.
Why would a Government not allow children to go to school? Why would children be stolen from their families? What do you understand by the term ‘Germanisation’?
Czesława Kwoka was born on 15th August 1928 in Wólka Złojecka, a small village near the city of Zamość in south-eastern Poland.
Teaching notes on the content and usage of the 'Paul's Journey' section of the resource, together with advice on the pedagogical challenges and conceptual issues it raises.
Paul’s story, like that of millions of other Jewish people in Hitler’s Europe 1933-45, is a story of fear, persecution and cruelty, which illustrates the dangers of sectarianism and ethnic or racial prejudice – a lesson we must never forget.
Teaching notes on the content and usage of the 'Martin and Erica's Journey' section of the resource, together with advice on the pedagogical challenges and conceptual issues it raises.
This is the story of Martin and Erica Stern and the journey they were forced to make through Europe during the Second World War.