Freedom
What freedom cost, and why we remember it
How the Second World War came to the Netherlands, how daily life changed under occupation, the Holocaust, liberation, and why we still remember and celebrate on 4 and 5 May.
Your AI mentor
Nelson Mandela
President and activist, 1918 to 2013
Mandela spent 27 years in prison for standing up to injustice. He listens first, asks what choices people had, and what freedom means to your child today.
An AI character inspired by Nelson Mandela, not the real person.
What’s inside
3 courses, lesson by lesson
8 modules in the curriculum
- 01
How the war began
- How Adolf Hitler came to power
- How the Second World War began in the Netherlands
- 02
Life in wartime
- Daily life changes
- The Holocaust
- Making choices
- The war outside Europe
- 03
Freedom
- Liberation
- Remembering and celebrating today
A sample lesson, about 10 minutes
A lesson with Nelson Mandela
- 1
The end of a war
Germany lost the First World War. What happened next?
- 2
The treaty
What the Treaty of Versailles demanded from Germany.
- 3
Money troubles
How paying for the war hit families in Germany.
- 4
Why it matters
Link the treaty to the political trouble that followed.
Skills to grow towards
What your child practises
Explains how the crisis after the First World War helped Hitler rise to power
Weighs the choices people faced: adapting, resisting or joining the occupier
Explains why we remember on 4 May and celebrate on 5 May
Questions from parents
Goes well with
Explore Freedom with your child
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