The Journey - Leo's Story

Take a life-changing journey through the eyes of Leo, a young boy forced to flee Nazi Germany. An interactive story game to learn about identity, friendship and kindness.

PLOT
Move through 10 richly animated episodes in the touching story of Leo. You are Leo. Your start point is a happy childhood in Berlin in 1933. Advance from there through 5 years of events that shook the world — and explore how they change the life of this one Jewish boy. Along the way, meet Leo's friends Fritz, Peter and Margot. Walk the steps Leo takes, leading up to the November Pogrom in 1938 — ‘Kristallnacht’, the night everything changed. Then wrestle with a family decision: should Leo stay with his mother and father in Nazi Germany? Or escape on the famous ‘Kindertransport’? What is it like to face life as a child refugee, forced to leave home for a new life in a strange new country — all by yourself? The story game ends here. But the journey will carry on in your mind.

INTERACTIVE ROLE PLAY
Immerse yourself in Leo’s life. Search fully explorable environments to find everyday objects in rooms, under furniture and on the streets. You’ll also discover items that change Leo's life. Log what happens in his diary. Resolve the questions that pop up in each episode, before you can move to the next.

EPISODES
1. Prologue (real-life Kindertransport refugee Ruth David).
2. Life at home
3. Protest
4. Franz and the Hitler Youth
5. Unfairness at school
6. The November Pogrom
7. The Aftermath
8. Preparing to leave
9. Impossible goodbyes
10. Epilogue (Ruth David)



KEY FEATURES IN SUMMARY:
‣ Interactive story game. 60-90 minutes gameplay through a high-quality animated storyline.
‣ Authentic narrative, exhaustively researched with leading academics and Holocaust survivors.
‣ Navigate virtual environments as Leo. Explore the rooms, buildings and locations on his journey.
‣ Choose how to respond to characters and events.
‣ Answer questions as they pop up along your journey.
‣ Find and discover objects — can you complete the collection?
‣ Keep a digital diary of events.
‣ History: Understand the experiences of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.
‣ SMSC: Learn tolerance and empathy by exploring difficult choices.
‣ FREE! High quality teacher and student resource packs.

LEARNING THEMES
The Journey will grip you, sadden you… to make you think. Explore themes of kindness, decency and empathy. What is it like to be thought of as ‘different’? What courage does it take to stand up for our friends even if they are ‘different’? What does it mean to live in a society that is decent? You will face all these questions as you advance through episodes encountering loneliness, bullying and finally, threats to Leo’s life from people he thought he could trust… but who changed when the Nazis came to power.

By stepping into one of the most dramatic times in world history, explore what’s important in your own life today.

For home or classroom learning. Purchase price includes beautifully designed teacher and student packs, created by professional educators from the UK National Holocaust Museum. Downloadable from The Journey website.

BASED ON WORLD-LEADING EXHIBITION ‘THE JOURNEY’
This is a brand new iPad role-play interactive experience based on the award-winning exhibition & learning programme ‘The Journey’. Delivered by the UK National Holocaust Museum to 18,000 UK primary school students a year. Leo’s story is drawn from the lives of Holocaust survivors who also helped to produce it, along with world-leading Holocaust History academics.