British Responses to the Holocaust: Student and teacher perspectives on the development of a new classroom resource

Within Britain, the government-led narrative of the country’s relationship with the Holocaust treads a sometimes uneasy line between triumphalist eulogy, on the one hand, and acknowledgement Britain ‘could have done more’ (Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission Report 2015, 24), on the other. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in Britain’s Promise to Remember: The Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission Report, which contains in its executive summary the following statement: Ensuring that the memory and the lessons of the Holocaust are never forgotten lies at the heart of Britain’s values as a nation. In commemorating the Holocaust, Britain remembers the way it proudly