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For schools and teachers
Free classroom material on the Roma and Sinti Holocaust, prepared with teachers and reviewed with Roma and Sinti community members.
Free
To download, and to book for state schools.
KS3 to KS5
Plus an assembly for the whole school.
Reusable
Adapt them. Keep the attribution.
Everything on this page may be downloaded, printed and used in the classroom at no cost. If you adapt it, please keep the attribution and the source references intact.
Introducing the Samudaripen
A single lesson that places Roma and Sinti victims inside an existing Holocaust scheme of work. Covers terminology, the pre-1933 registries, and why this history was left out of the record for so long.
- Suitable for
- Key Stage 3 (ages 11–14)
- Length
- One 60-minute lesson
- Format
Reading a registration card
A source-work lesson built around a police registration document. Students work out what the form asks for, who filled it in, and what it was later used to do.
- Suitable for
- Key Stage 4 (ages 14–16)
- Length
- One 60-minute lesson
- Format
- Worksheet pack
2 August: an assembly
A fifteen-minute assembly for Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, with a reading, a short set of slides and a minute's silence. Written to be delivered by a member of staff with no background in the subject.
- Suitable for
- All secondary
- Length
- 15 minutes
- Format
- Slides
Anti-Gypsyism, then and now
A lesson connecting the 1926 Bavarian law to present-day policy and reporting. Handles the connection carefully: the point is continuity of thinking, not equivalence of harm.
- Suitable for
- Key Stage 5 (ages 16–18)
- Length
- Two 60-minute lessons
- Format
Files marked “request by email” are written but not yet uploaded to this site. Write to us and we will send them straight back.
Curriculum
Curriculum links
Listed so that a head of department can justify the hour without having to do the mapping themselves.
- History KS3: challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day
- Citizenship KS3: diversity of identities in the UK
- GCSE History: interpretations and source evaluation
- Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
- A-level History: coursework on prejudice and state policy
- Sociology: ethnicity and inequality
In person
Book a school session
We visit schools across the North East and can host groups at the monument. Sessions are led by community educators and are free to state schools.
Tell us the year group, the number of students, the date you have in mind and whether you want us at the school or your group at the monument. Half a term’s notice is ideal; January and late July fill first.
Direct line
If a form is not what you need, write to us. Put the year group and a date in the subject line and we will reply with what is possible.
info@romaholocaust.org+44 7950 266341Using the materials
Practicalities
Questions about running a session are answered on the education page.