1. Active Citizenship Human Rights: The Holocaust

2.  Rearrange these letters to make words linked to Human Rights; 1- ETH ZLTBI 2- SULOOAHCT 3- LTRIHE 4- ENAN KRFNA

3.  To explore the origins of the declaration of human rights.  To imagine having our human rights taken away.

4.  When Eleanor Roosevelt led the party to devise the Declaration of human rights in 1948; the intention was to prevent any of the atrocities of WWII happening again.  Many innocent people on both sides lost their lives in the Air raids.  Torture of POW was commonplace

5.  Hitler had a master plan and once it gathered momentum no one was brave enough to stand up to him and tell him he was wrong.  Hitler persecuted different minority groups like; travellers, blacks, homosexuals and the disabled.

6.  Hitler wanted to wipe out the Jewish race and killed over six million Jews during WWII.

7.  Was born in Germany in 1929.  Aged four her family moved to Holland in the hope that they may be safer from Hilter’s persecution of the Jews.  Just before her thirteenth birthday Anne and her family went into hiding and Anne began to write a diary.  Anne and her family were betrayed after two years in hiding and captured by the Nazi’s  Anne Died aged 15 in a concentration camp.

8.  How do you think Anne Frank felt when she was in hiding?  Add to the handout will all the thoughts and feelings she maybe having.

9.  Anne’s Dad was the only member of the family to survive and published his daughter’s diary.  Anne’s diary is the testimony of a young woman who refused to give up. She resisted the Nazis. Throughout those two years Anne held on to her culture, her ideals, her hopes and her dreams in the face of adversity, even though she was trapped within the confines of the family’s hiding place.

10.  Anne wrote about life in hiding, her family relationships, the other people in hiding with her and her own physical and emotional development. It is a very moving personal record of what happened during the Holocaust.  In Anne's own words ...I long to have a home of our own, to be able to move around freely and have someone help me with my homework again, at last. In other words, to go back to school!"

11.  “After May 1940…the trouble started for the Jews. Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees: Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn- in their bicycles; Jews were forbidden to ride trams or in cars, even their own…Jews were forbidden to go to theatres, cinemas or any other forms of entertainment; Jews were forbidden to use swimming pools, tennis courts, hockey fields or any other athletic fields…You couldn’t do this and you couldn’t do that, but life went on…”

12.  Imagine you are Jewish in the Second World War.  Write a diary entry describing how you feel.

13.  The Holocaust was an example of Genocide.  Research other examples of Genocide over the last 50 years.  Bring this knowledge to the next lesson  Ensure you have images, facts and figures you will need them next lesson

14.  What was the Holocaust?  How do you think Anne Frank felt?  What’s your opinion on Hilter’s actions?  Do you think this type of activity still happens?