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Activity 1 - Your teacher will show you this clip at the beginning of the lesson
View I'm Still Here- start at 1:03-6:00 (Intro & Klaus Langer, 12, Germany)
This is the story of a child during the Holocaust in their own words from their diary
Activity 2: Jewish armed resistance in ghettos and camps, 1941-1944 (copy the following in your workbook)
Between 1941 and 1943, underground resistance movements developed in about 100 Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe. Their main goals were to organize uprisings, break out of the ghettos, and join partisan units (supporters of the Jews) in the fight against the Germans. The Jews knew that uprisings would not stop the Germans and that only a handful of fighters would succeed in escaping to join with partisans. Still, Jews made the decision to resist. Further, under the most adverse conditions, Jewish prisoners succeeded in initiating resistance and uprisings in some Nazi concentration camps, and even in the killing centres of Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
There were FOUR main types of resistance during the Holocaust:
Spiritual Resitance
Cultural Resistance
Physical Armed Resistance
Righteous Among the Nations (non-Jewish people)
Activity 3: Video and reflection
Watch the video on "Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust"
After you have watched, answer the questions below:
What is cultural and spiritual resistance?
What is armed resistance?
Write a list of at least five ways (provide specific examples) the Jews resisted during the Holocaust.
Explain the view of Holocaust survivor Roman Kent that “Resistance does not have to be with a gun and a bullet”.
Why would starting a secret school in a ghetto be considered a form of resistance?
Why was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising so significant in the short and medium term?
Activity 4: Women of Valor - Righteous Among the Nations
A little over half of the Righteous Among the Nations recognized by Yad Vashem are women. While many of them acted in cooperation with other family members, some of these courageous women were the initiators of the rescue and acted independently to save Jews. Here are some of their stories
Select TWO women who risked their life to save Jews and answer the following.
Name
Origin of Country
Act of Resistance
Watch the following clip-on Sir Nicholas Winton a Bristish hero
Activity 5 - Poem "FISRT THEY CAME" - Pastor Martin Niemöller
Class discussion and reflection on:
meaning and purpose of the on the Poem "First They Came"
the significance of this to the Holocaust and resistance
Activity 6 - Discussion
Discuss the statement "A choiceless Choice" and what does this represent for Jewish people in their plight of resistence aganist Nazi Germany
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