Schools and Education
Our educational resources help you bring history, politics, and civic education to life for your students.
Young people want to explore history on their own terms – using digital tools and linking the past to contemporary issues. Our educational resources reflect these preferences – we provide interactive learning modules that make history relevant to the world young people live in today.
Access our digital resources and educational booklets in English here.
We’re constantly expanding our range of arolsen school digital learning modules for international audiences – check back soon to discover the latest additions!
Research- and inquiry-based learning
As well as presenting historical documents and biographical information, our educational booklets contain explanations and worksheets that promote research- and inquiry-based collaborative learning.
Working with original sources teaches students skills that are also important for independent research. In addition, the booklets provide practical tips for organizing project days and workshops.
These educational materials offer all sorts of ways to get learners to talk to each other; they also encourage students to develop ideas for their own remembrance projects. These materials can be used in schools as well as with learning groups and initiatives in other educational contexts.
Web-based teaching resources
Suspicious
Landscape of Crimes
Concentration camps weren’t isolated entities. Shortly before the end of the war they were part of a huge network of places where National Socialists subjected people to imprisonment, torture, forced labor, and murder.
#StolenMemory
The “effects” & the fates of their owners provide a very concrete starting point and interesting opportunities for research-based learning about Nazi persecution in history lessons and project work. Groups who want to get more involved can help find families.
Web-Portal:
Transnational
Remembrance
The “Transnational Remembrance” web portal explores the lasting impact of Nazi-era forced labor. Millions of forced laborers and other victims of Nazi persecution joined the wave of migration that followed the Second World War. An interactive world map and engaging “Story Maps” provide moving insights into the life stories of displaced persons.