Holocaust Memorial Week

Holocaust education features significantly in the history curriculum at PGHS. Students in Year 9 are currently studying in-depth about how and why the holocaust happened. As part of their unit on Germany 1919-1991, Year 11 students study the topic as part of their GCSE studies. This year, students in Years 9 and 10 watched a live webcast with a holocaust survivor which was organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust. Hedi Argent, born in Vienna in 1929, gave a fascinating and eloquent testimony of her experiences of the holocaust and how her family had been brutally persecuted both before and during the Nazi regime came to power in the 1930s. Hedi shared her experiences of persecution and discrimination from a very early age and how she witnessed the Jewish pogrom on Kristallnacht, in 1938. If you would like to read more about Hedi and her experience of the Nazi persecution of Jews, please click here: Hedi Argent | The National Holocaust Centre and Museum, or to watch her testimony, please click here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2idsMcgIao

In March, 42 Year 10 students will attend a history trip to Krakow, Poland to learn more about the Nazi persecution of the Jewish people. The trip will include a full day tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a visit to the Jewish quarter of Krakow and the Schindler Factory museum. You will be able to read more about their experiences on their return.

Mr Herbert

Associate Assistant Headteacher and Curriculum Leader for History

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