New app to teach children about the Kindertransport through educational game
A new educational app has been launched by the National Holocaust Centre and Museum that creates an interactive story based on the institution’s Kindertransport exhibition aimed at primary school children.
The Nottinghamshire-based museum is inspired by the urgency for “Holocaust education…to keep pace with popular culture.”
The app, called ‘The Journey’, allows users to take the role of a Jewish boy living in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1938.
According to the JC, Kindertransport survivor Ruth Barnett said the exhibition gave primary pupils “an experience of what life was like for children of their age at the time of Hitler’s Reich…The possibilities for a user of this app are many times greater than those in the exhibition.”