History Speaks
History Speaks Online Resource provides the first online web access to Holocaust survivor testimonies for young people in the world. It aims to capture the richness of students’ interaction with survivors, and to provide opportunities for students to play a part in the archiving and documentation of a very important era of European history.
It has been designed to provide students with the support they need to explore the lessons and views they have developed in learning about the Holocaust or genocide. It encourages young people to build up a community of learners about the Holocaust and genocide, through the use of filmed interviews of survivors and interactive elements.
It is also a platform or repository for teachers to share ideas about approaches, resources and programmes which have worked with their students.
The History Speaks resource is provided free of charge to all secondary schools in the UK for the first year. Advanced content and interview resources, which will be added after the launch in January 2009, will be accessible with a payment of £50 plus VAT per school. If you book a video conferencing session with us, you will be given access to the advanced content and additional resources for the duration of the video conferencing session.
To visit ‘History Speaks’, please click here
The initial development of History Speaks has been funded by the following sponsors:
Stanley Burton Charitable Trust; Hockerill Anglo-European College; The University of Nottingham; Tesco Charity Trust; Co-financed by the European Union within the programme “Active European Citizenship” 2000–2006; Michael & Morven Heller Charitable Foundation; International Task Force for Holocaust Education; Beitler Community Fund.
To find out more about how History Speaks was constructed, download the following report.
Awards
**2nd June 2009: History Speaks was selected as one of the top content providers by Berrien RESA Teacher’s Choice Awards for the 2008-2009 school year.
**9th September, History Speaks Team wins the 2009 Digital Education Achievement Awards.
Of the Berlin street: “At this point, I felt things really clicked into place and the children began to understand day-to-day life for Jews.” The carriage was engaging and poignant; children really got to see what happened in reality, but in a sensitive way.” “The home was atmospheric and children got a real feel for life in Germany in the 1930s.”
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