LONDON (AFP-EJP)---Britain's first ever Holocaust exhibition specifically aimed at primary schoolchildren will open this week, the show's venue said Sunday, in the latest measure to bolster knowledge of the Shoah among Britons.
The exhibition, entitled "The Journey", recounts the story of a fictional Jewish child called Leo Stein who hides from the Nazis before fleeing to England.
"This exhibition offers a child a chance to learn about the experiences under the Nazis of children just like themselves," said Stephen Smith, head of the Holocaust Centre in Newark, Nottinghamshire, central England.
The display will be specifically targeted at primary school children -- seven to 11-year-olds.
"We will take them on a journey through history, a journey exploring identity, and a journey to discuss the values of the world we share," he added. It also features stories from Jews who survived the Holocaust as children.
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Artists who survived the Holocaust and later painted about their own experiences attended the launch of a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London on Thursday September 4 2008. The new temporary exhibition, Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust, runs from September 5 until August 31 2009.
The show features work from Roman Halter and Alicia Melamed Adams who were both sole members of their families to survive the holocaust.
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Teachers bringing older children to the Holocaust centre told staff that they should open it up to younger pupils. "Teachers have been saying to us that it's OK coming to the Holocaust Centre with pupils who are in their mid-teens but issues around racism and exclusion begin really early on in children's experiences,” Smith said. .
The 750,000-pound (930,000 euros or 1.3 million dollars) exhibition, part funded by money from Britain's national lottery, will open on Monday morning in the presence of Maria Miller, the British Shadow Minister for families.
In February the government announced that Britain will help fund two students from every school in England to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp to learn about the Holocaust.
