Introduce the history of Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust with this overview.
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Jewish Partisans in Belarus
Introduce students to the partisan resistance movement in Belarus with this brief overview.
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Jewish Partisans in Greece
Learn how Greek Jews were active in the partisan resistance movement during World II, despite the presence of German forces in Greece.
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Jewish Partisans in Lithuania
Introduce students to the history of the Holocaust in Lithuania with this historical overview.
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Jewish Partisans in Occupied Poland
Introduce the subject of Jewish partisan resistance in Poland with this brief overview.
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Jewish Partisans in the Resistance
Learn about the role that Jewish partisans played in resistance to the Holocaust in this brief introduction to the topic.
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Joining the FPO
Resistance fighter Vitka Kempner describes the origins of the United Partisans Organization in the Vilna Ghetto.
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Jonathan Sacks on Moses' Identity
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks describes the identity crisis Moses faced being raised Egyptian and born Jewish.
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Kimchee on the Seder Plate
Read this reflection on Jewish identity by the daughter of an Ashkenazi, Reform Jewish father and a Korean Buddhist mother.
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Leaving Home
Explore the decision of Vitka Kempner, then a 19-year-old Jewish teenager from Poland, to leave her family and flee when the German army invaded in 1939.
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Protecting the Girls from the Men
Sara Fortis recounts feeling responsible for the well-being of the women in her all-female partisan unit.
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Resistance Is...
Israeli poet Haim Gouri and Monia Avrahami explore resistance during the Holocaust.
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