Jewish identity has many facets. This film explores the complexity and contradiction inherent in a diverse community.
Facing History's Jewish Education Program worked with teachers and 8th grade students at JCDS, Boston's Jewish Community Day School on their Project Focused Learning Initiative (PFLI) project.
Kathy Reynolds describes the project for which she won a Margot Stern Strom Award.
Former Jewish partisans reflect on women's participation in organized resistance groups during the Holocaust.
Students in Rhiannon Van Bindsbergen's art class at Solomon Schechter Jewish Day School in West Hartford, CT, build a Holocaust memorial for their PFLI (Project Focused Learning Initiative) project.
Follow three people who credit their upstander behavior to the impact of one survivor’s story. The experience of Dr. Anna Ornstein, Hungarian survivor of Auschwitz, child psychiatrist, and author, has impacted choices of students since the 1970s.
Former Jewish partisan Aron Bell describes how weapons were essential to the life of a partisan.
Former Jewish partisans discuss the goals, challenges, and personal motives of the Jews who resisted the Germans.
Historian Jeffrey Shandler describes Jewish life in Poland before World War II. Until 1933-1935 Polish Jews were not concerned by Europe’s changing political or social climate. Polish Jews believed they lived in post-war, not pre-war, Poland.
Former Jewish partisan Sonia Orbuch recalls the moment she and her family joined a group of Russian partisans.
This short trailer from Kaleidoscope, a narrative-arts driven initiative, features the stories of Jewish people of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Former Jewish partisan Sonia Orbuch describes how she approached the dangers of life as a partisan.