Students use journaling and group discussion to respond to emotionally-challenging diary entries of a Jewish teenager confined in a Nazi ghetto.
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Responding to the Stories of Holocaust Survivors
Students create a "found poem" drawing on words from the testimony of a survivor of the Holocaust.
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Holocaust
A Statement of Faith
Survivors of the ghetto-camp Terezin share stories about their underground publication Vedem and other acts of spiritual resistance.
Reading
Holocaust
Music in the Vilna Ghetto
Find out how the musical tradition of the Jews of Vilna created opportunities for spiritual and physical resistance after the Nazis established a ghetto there.
Reading
Holocaust
Rabbi Shimon Huberband’s Account of Jews Being Executed for Leaving the Ghetto
Shimon Huberband, a central figure in the Oyneg Shabes, documents life in the Warsaw ghetto.
Reading
Holocaust
The Jewish Councils
Read the minutes of a Jewish Councils meeting held in the Vilna ghetto in 1942 and consider the unthinkable choices faced by its members.
Reading
Holocaust
The Jewish Ghettos: Separated from the World
Read diary entries from a girl who lived in the Łódź ghetto, and learn the history of Jewish ghettos in Poland.
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Holocaust
Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto
Learn about the Oyneg Shabes, a group in the Warsaw ghetto that documented Nazi crimes and the daily lives of the ghetto's residents.
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Holocaust
What Did Jews in the Ghettos Know?
Consider how Jews living in the ghettos got information about the outside world, and how much they knew about the mass murders occurring across Europe.
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Ghettos
Facades for the International Commission by Bedřich Fritta
This illustration by Bedřich Fritta, a prisoner at Terezín, depicts the “beautification” of the ghetto-camp undertaken by the SS before the Red Cross visit in 1944.
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Flowers and Butterfly by Margit Koretzova
Margit Koretzova painted this while imprisoned at the Terezín ghetto-camp. She died at age ten.
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Victim and Survivor Voices
Ghettos
Forced March to the Ghetto
Holocaust survivor Moshe Shamir recalls how he and his family were uprooted when the Nazis invaded and forced to relocate to a ghetto.
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