Teaching the Holocaust through the Jewish Country House

The Jewish Country house project www.jch.history.ox.ac.uk is delivering a new series of teachers’ study seminars focusing on the Messel family of Nymans (West Sussex) and the Rothschild family of Waddesdon Manor (Buckinghamshire).

Britain's relationship to the Holocaust is often overlooked in the school curriculum. Timed to coincide with “Refugee week”, this project will reclaim the Holocaust stories associated with the “Jewish country house”, and empower teachers to engage with these local stories in their classrooms.