Assembly resources
The Holocaust: Holocaust Memorial Day
A free KS4 Holocaust Memorial Day assembly for 2027 on No Place for Prejudice, with editable slides, a full speaker script, survivor stories and tutor reflection.
Year group: Key Stage 4, with adaptation guidance for Year 9 Best delivered: In the week of Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January Duration: About 15 minutes, including a thirty-second silence Tone: Quiet, serious, respectful and thoughtful What you need - The editable 15-slide PowerPoint assembly. - The full speaker script and guidance PDF. - The same presenter guidance embedded in the PowerPoint notes. - Your school's reporting route and the name of an adult pupils can speak to privately. - Optional licensed photographs of Lily Ebert and Sir Ben Helfgott for the marked photo frames.
The assembly is written for Holocaust Memorial Day 2027 and its theme, No Place for Prejudice .
It centres individual lives rather than images of atrocity.
There are no simulations, role play or graphic images.
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The script also includes a shorter route of about 13 minutes and a ten-minute tutor-time reflection that does not require slides.
Script notes Begin with one human object (Slides 1-2, about 90 seconds) Set a quiet tone and introduce Holocaust Memorial Day.
The opening story uses the words written on a banknote for a young Jewish survivor in 1945: "The start to a new life.
Good luck and happiness." Do not identify the young woman immediately.
The assembly returns to the object when pupils encounter Lily Ebert's story later.
Define the Holocaust precisely (Slides 3-4, about 2 minutes) Explain that the Holocaust was the systematic murder of around six million Jewish men, women and children by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.
Name other groups persecuted and murdered by the Nazis without comparing or ranking suffering.
The next slide restores some of the Jewish life that existed before the Holocaust and corrects a common misconception: Jewish people were less than one per cent of Germany's population in 1933.
Introduce Lily Ebert and Ben Helfgott as people with homes, families and futures, not only as victims.
How persecution grew (Slides 5-6, about 2.5 minutes) Use the timeline to show that the Holocaust developed through choices, institutions and escalating persecution.
The sequence moves from prejudice and exclusion to discriminatory laws, violence, ghettos, mass shootings and killing centres.
Slide 6 represents six million people with 6,000 dots, one dot for every 1,000 lives.
About 1,500 dots represent children.