Israeli poet Haim Gouri and Monia Avrahami explore resistance during the Holocaust.
Israeli poet Haim Gouri and Monia Avrahami explore resistance during the Holocaust.
Learn about the dilemmas Jewish partisans faced as they encouraged others to fight back against the Germans during the Holocaust, through experience of teenage resistance fighter Vitka Kempner.
Read the story of Sara Fortis, a young woman who fled her hometown in Greece when the Nazis invaded in 1941 and joined the resistance movement.
Learn about the necessity to recruit and train women for an all-female partisan unit.
Investigate Eleanor Roosevelt’s description of the differences between the way Americans and Soviets viewed personal freedoms and rights in this excerpt of her speech delivered at the Sorbonne.
Learn about the measures taken by a young woman and her family to join a partisan group during the Nazi's forced occupation of Poland.
Investigate the four fundamental freedoms that Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt proposed as the foundation of a civilized, moral world.
Introduce students to the history of the Holocaust in Belarus.
Learn about the occupation of Greece by the Axis powers during World War II.
Introduce students to the history of the Holocaust in Lithuania with this historical overview.
Learn about the brutality of the German occupation and the Holocaust in Poland with this short historical overview.
Learn about the key role that the partisans played in saving the lives of many Jews, Gentiles, and Greek citizens.