Easter Activities

Below are some videos and film ideas, along with activities, and websites you could explore.

Films:

There are many, many films based on the Holocaust. Below are four that are meant for younger viewers. However, if you have Netflix or Amazon, you will find many others you could also watch.

• Schindler's List: One of the most famous films about the Holocaust. Based on a true story about a factory owner who helped to save the lives of many Jews during WW2.
• The Boy in the Stiped Pyjamas: A film based on a book about an unlikely friendship between a the son of a concentration camp commandant and a young concentration camp inmate.
• The Book Thief: Based on the book by Markus Zusak, this is about a young girl living in Nazi Germany during WW2. Whilst living through the horrors of war, young Liesel takes comfort in the books she steals to help her in her quest to learn how to read.
• The Zookeeper's Wife: A film about the Warsaw Zoo's owners who helped to shelter 300 Jews and resistance fighters in Poland during WW2.

Websites and virtual tours:

Below are some websites for Holocaust museums or places of significance that have virtual tours or interactive activities that you can take part in.

• Auschwitz Concentration Camp Virtual Tour - http://panorama.auschwitz.org/tour1,en.html
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - If you download the app you can take a virtual tour, which has activities you can do too. https://www.ushmm.org/teach/teaching-materials/primary-sources-collections/virtual-field-trip
• The Holocaust Museum Houston - you can take a tour and have a look around their exhibits - https://www.youvisit.com/tour/kaciakyle/holocaust_museum_houston
• The Anne Frank Museum - take a tour of the secret annex or download some of the activities from the education section -https://www.annefrank.org/en/