The Holocaust
Learn The Holocaust for Year 9 pupils (ages 13–14). Free practice questions, lessons and worked examples — aligned to the UK National Curriculum.
What you'll learn
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The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jewish people by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1941 and 1945.
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It did not begin with murder. It began with law: Jewish people were stripped of citizenship, excluded from jobs and schools, boycotted, and marked out — step by step, over years.
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How did Nazi persecution of Jewish people begin?
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Historians study how ordinary institutions — civil servants, railways, local police — carried out these steps. Genocide required the cooperation of many people who were not themselves fanatics.
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Why do historians study the role of ordinary institutions?
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Apply it: the Holocaust was not a single event but a process — legal exclusion from 1933, then ghettoisation, then mass murder. Each stage made the next possible.
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Why do historians study the Holocaust as a process?
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Free AI-tutored lessons, unlimited practice questions, and progress tracking for ages 13–14. Aligned to the UK National Curriculum.