A History Mystery: What is the story hiding in this document?

A History Mystery: It's important to ask the right questions ...

Are these Irish names?

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What were they doing here?Holiday? Business? Other reason?

Anything significant about this date?

What kind of people are they?

Does this information help with the story?

Why has this type of information about them been collected?

Life for Jews in Germany:A Timeline

1933 April - Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses

1934 Increase in anti Jewish propaganda

1935 May: Jews forbidden in army September: Nuremburg Laws banned marriages or sex between Aryans and Jews Jews lost rights as citizens

1936 Reduction in persecution because of Berlin Olympics

1937 Jewish businesses forced to close

1938 April: Jews had to register property June-July: Jewish doctors forbidden to treat Aryans October: Jews had passports stamped November 9-10: Kristallnacht - violence against Jewish property

1939 January: All Jews got new first names January: Reich Office for Jewish Emigration set up

Your Turn:Use the same methods to tell the story of

this family

What kind of attitudes did the refugees face in Eire and Northern Ireland?

PART 1A letter from the Northern Ireland Ministry of Agriculture

January 24th 1939

Who has approached the Ministry?

What are their plans?

What are they asking for?

Will it cost anything?

What is the attitude of the letter writer towards the request?

What is he asking the Ministry of Finance for?

INTERLUDEDid people know what was going on in

Nazi Germany?

British Pathe newsreel from January 9th 1939

Clip 995.06 – Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury gives a speech about the persecution of the Jews and Lord Baldwin's fund.

British Pathe newsreel from 1933

Clip 2079.08 – Time to Remember - The Time of The Monster

Documentary film about events of 1933, rise of Roosevelt and Hitler.

What kind of attitudes did the refugees face in Eire and Northern Ireland?

PART 2A letter from the Northern Ireland Ministry of Home Affairs

February 2nd 1939

What does the Ministry think of the plan to train refugees?

What does the Ministry fear?

How does this writer's attitude to the refugees compare with the man from the Ministry of Agriculture?

What solution would the writer prefer?

What is your view of this writer's attitude?

Is your view of the writer's attitude shaped by hindsight?

What kind of attitudes did the refugees face in Eire and Northern Ireland?

PART 3An extract from an article on political refugees taken from

The Irish Times newspaper published on February 25th 1939

Which industries have benefited from immigrants in the past?

According to the writer, how have immigrants and refugees affected employment in England?

What do the immigrants bring with them?

What is the writer's view of people who oppose immigration into Ireland?

Do you find these arguments convincing?

One Last Document: A letter from Maurice Solomon of the Refugee Settlement Farm to the British

Home Office November 24th 1939

What is Maurice Solomon asking for?

What does he have in mind for the 12 people?

How does he convince the Home Office that his request is worthwhile?

What costs are involved?

Who is paying?

The Home Secretary has passed this letter on to you. You have to advise him on whether or not to allow the 12 refugees into Northern Ireland.

Put your advice in a report. As you prepare your report you should think about:

What the refugees have been through The type of people they seem to be Attitudes towards them in Ireland Government policy in Britain Arguments against allowing them in Arguments in favour of allowing them in

You will need to finish with a clear conclusion setting out your personal views.

Your Challenge: Advise the minister