Britain, Refugees and the Kindertransport

This lesson introduces students to Britain’s relationship to the Holocaust by encouraging them to consider the challenges which faced Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and the different reactions which their arrival produced in British society, facilitating understanding of what it meant to be a refugee.

Click on the links below to download the teaching notes and classroom resources; Welsh-language versions of classroom resources can be accessed via the links in brackets.

Guidance notes

Harry Bibring worksheet  (Fersiwn Cymraeg)

Memories of the Kindertransport sheets  (Fersiwn Cymraeg)

British reactions to refugees sheets