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• Teaching background to UDHR (secondary)
• Posted: 03-03-2009 14:57:23 UTC By Ced Simpson
• My class (Yr 10) seem to have very little knowledge of the context behind the UDHR. They don't seem to know anything about Hitler, Nazis and the 'Final Solution' let alone the war in the pacific. I was wondering if you knew of any documentaries that have footage of the concentration camps, refugees or devastation in general.
  -- first year SocStuds teacher

• Re: Teaching background to UDHR (secondary)
• Posted: 03-03-2009 19:48:38 UTC By Ced Simpson
• Ideas received:
  - The best place to start would be to go onto the NZHTA website (www.nzhta.org.nz) as they have a lot of resources. I would also suggest you contact the holocaust centre in Wellington - www.holocaustcentre.org.nz/
  Both have lots of links and can certainly point you in the right direction.
  - The National Library may be able to help. The History Channel has many docs on these subjects. Generally, the topics you mention are covered in yr 11. Just a word of warning...many concentration-type docs a v graphic, and not appropriate for a young audience.
  - There is lots of material on that area of history – Anne frank would be a good starting point as students often find it easier to identify with an individual rather than a large group. Some people use The Pianist or schedulers list. I like to use Escape from Sobibor. There is also lots of material on the Asian part of the war – nearly every night it’s on the History channel. But there is also a lot of research about the dangers of teaching about say the holocaust as it often reinforces prejudice and can spread anti-Semitism. It may be more successful to look at other violations of civil rights eg. The black civil rights struggle which are less demanding in the classroom.
  - Have just watched a very graphic film called The Grey Zone which very clearly shows what happened to the Jews in Auschwitz. Although a re-enactment it was very powerful, focusing on a group of Jewish Sonderkommando as they unloaded the gas chambers and put the bodies in the ovens etc. There is also the very good BBC? Documentary series Auschwitz.
  - Lots of documentaries on the history channel have covered this. Most schools should have “The Nazis A warning from history” (4 part series), Auschwitz (4 part series) or ‘The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler” (old but very good).
  

• Re: Re: Teaching background to UDHR (secondary)
• Posted: 13-02-2010 11:15:32 UTC By Marama Henwood
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is an excellent book and film to use. We use it in our English department at Year 10. It is about a boy whose father works in a concentration camp and the frienship he forms with one of the young jewish prisoners.

• Re: Teaching background to UDHR (secondary)
• Posted: 10-03-2009 14:30:31 UTC By Adeline Duvivier
• "Judgement at Nuremberg" (1961) is kind of THE classic film / documentary for history teaching in Europe. An horrible long film but actually really "good" to show the atrocities of the Nazis. Abstracts could be enough to discuss it in Class.
  
  A Movie and definitely not a documentary was in the last weeks in the cinemas: the boy in the stripped pajamas. Actually without a real view of the historic context but a greater focusing of the child's reactions. About behavior towards a friend who is told to be the enemy, ...