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The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the enormity of the crimes committed during the Holocaust and to help them bear witness to the experiences of those targeted by the Nazis. In this lesson, students will continue this unit’s historical case study by learning about four phases of the Holocaust and then looking closely at stories of individuals who were targeted by Nazi brutality.
The extension includes the stories of individuals who, in spite of the danger, violence, and suffering around them, resisted the Nazis’ programme of dehumanisation and murder. A small percentage of prisoners in camps and ghettos found ways to carry out armed resistance, while others engaged in forms of ‘spiritual resistance’, and fought to maintain a sense of identity, dignity, faith, and culture in the degrading and dehumanizing systems of the ghettos and camps.
It is crucial in a study of the Holocaust to acknowledge the various ways that Jews and others targeted by the Nazis resisted, and to recognise the incredible challenges they faced.
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