Supporting Holocaust Survivor Testimony in Teaching

Description

The purpose of this Market Engagement Event is as an information-gathering exercise.  It is not being used as a call for competition. The Prime Minister has announced an ambition that, as part of their education, every student in the country should have the opportunity to hear a recorded Holocaust survivor testimony. The Department for Education has allocated up to £2m for financial year 2025-26 to support this work. The Department envisages that the programme will include the component parts below: • Development and roll-out of a resource pack supporting schools to use survivor testimony effectively in their teaching. This will provide assembly and lesson guidance, and use survivor testimony from the wide array of existing resources available from expert organisations; • Provision of Continuing Professional Development/in class-help to support schools to use testimony effectively; and • Encouragement of further development of AI/VR resources relating to survivor testimony. We aim to do this by: o including in the resource pack guidance and help on how to best use this form of emerging technology within Holocaust education, and support schools to be sensitive to the use of such technology in the teaching of the Holocaust as per the IHRA conference recommendations on use of AI in Holocaust memory; o signposting to current high-quality provision; and o supporting schools with the hardware needed to access such software programmes by buying VR headsets that they can use. An online supplier market engagement event will take place on Tuesday 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00. Information regarding this session will be available to those who register their interest through SSQ_584.