Teachers' notes
Primary lesson objectives
- an overview of how the war affected people's everyday lives
- about the restrictions on people, how they suffered during the war, their courage and resilience
Primary curriculum links
History at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 3/4)
Unit 9: What was it like for children in the Second World War?
Section 6: In what other ways might the war have affected people?
Glossary
Concentration camp a type of prison, often consisting of a number of buildings inside a fence, where political prisoners are kept in extremely bad conditions
Convent where nuns live and worship
Holocaust the killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s
Humanity people in general
Kindertransport the rescue mission that took place nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany and placed them in British foster homes, hostels, and farms.
Lobbied trying to influence people such as politicians
Nazi member of the National Socialist party which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945
Persecuted to treat somebody in a cruel and unfair way, especially because of their race, religion or political beliefs
Physiotherapist someone who treats injuries or diseases by the use of massage and exercise
Plight a difficult and sad situation
Posthumously when something is done after someone's death
Prisoner of war someone who is captured in war and held as a prisoner until the war has ended
Quaker a Christian religious group that meets without any formal ceremony and is strongly opposed to violence and war
Visas documents which allow someone from another country to enter a different country legally