Krakow : Citizenship & Learning Skills
[Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 - A Level]
The tragedy of the Holocaust reached its most horrifying peak in the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau. What happened here can seem to students to be just numbers but faced with the reality preserved at the Camp the humanity of the victims becomes all too real. A school trip here is an incomparably moving and life changing experience.
Subject Focus:
- KS 3-5: Understand the scale and extent of the Holocaust.
- KS 3-5: Examine the importance of the Holocaust in world history.
- KS 3-5: Explore how people come to terms with the traumas of recent history.
Student Outcomes:
- Empathy for the victims of the Holocaust.
- Understand the impact of the Holocaust on world history and the people left behind.
- Examine issues of citizenship, racism and responsibility.
- Explore how people come to terms with historical events.
