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This is the story of Martin and Erica Stern and the journey they were forced to make through Europe during the Second World War.

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.

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’?

What was ‘racial science’? What does ‘Afrodeutsch’ mean? Who has the right to decide who can have children?

Teaching notes on the content and usage of the 'Disabled people and the euthanasia programme' 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 'Persecution of Gypsies and the Porrajmos' section of the resource, together with advice on the pedagogical challenges and conceptual issues it raises.

Magdalena Kusserow was born on 23rd January 1924 in Bochum in Germany.

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, which is today part of Romania.

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.

Theresia Karas was born on 13th May 1928 in Salzburg, Austria.

Why would these men have been persecuted? What was Paragraph 175? What did the pink triangle symbolise?

What is the purpose of a castle? What does “Euthanasia” mean? Who has the right to choose who lives and who dies?