8.2: Resisting the Holocaust

Objective:

  • Students will be able to describe and provide examples of the way victims of the Holocaust resisted by answering questions on a worksheet based off several reading assignments, video clips, images, and class discussion

Vocabulary: active resistance, sonderkommando, partisans, creative resistance, Kindertransport

Directions:


Warm-Up: Somewhere in the image of the gate to the concentration camp at Auschwitz is a symbol of resistance. What is it?

Part 1 - Active Resistance

A. "Not Like Sheep to the Slaughter"

Answer questions 1-3 based on the reading below.Click the icon in the corner to enlarge the image.
Reading - "Not like sheep to the slaughter"

B. Video: Partisans on the Eastern Front during WW2

Answer questions 4-6 based on the video below.

C. Video: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Answer questions 7-11 based on the video below.

D. Reading: The Revolt at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Answer questions 12-15 based on the video below.
Reading - The Revolt at Auschwitz

Part 2 - Creative Resistance

E. Video: “Creative Resistance”

Answer questions 16 & 17 based on the video below.

F. Song/Lyrics: “Undzer Shtetl Brent!”

Answer questions 18 & 19 based on the lyrics to Undzer Shtetl Brent. Use the video to hear the song, and click the button to view the lyrics in English.

G. Reading: The Cats of Krasinski Square

Answer question 20 based on a reading of The Cats of Krasinski Square found below.
Reading - The Cats of Krasinksi Square.pdf

H. Video: Nicholas Winton & the Kindertransport

Answer questions 21 & 22 based on the video below.

I. Video: “The Good Man of Auschwitz”

Answer question 23 based on the video below.

J. Reading: Excerpt from Stephen Nasser’s autobiography, My Brother’s Voice, p. 147-49

Answer question 24 based on the reading below.
Reading - Nasser Excerpt - Resistance by living.pdf