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Interview Testimony by Zvi Michaeli

Zvi Michaeli describes how he survived when the Germans rounded up and massacred all the Jews in Eishyshok, Lithuania.

Last Updated: October 1, 2014

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The Holocaust

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Students are introduced to upstanders Waitstill and Martha Sharp, an American minister and his wife who undertook a rescue mission to help save Jews and refugees fleeing Nazi occupation.

Martha and Waitstill Sharp wave to a crowd before leaving New York City for Europe. Martha wears a corsage of flowers on her coat and holds a bouquet of flowers in her left hand. Stamped in ink on verso: "Photo by William T. Hoff, New York Municipal Airport"

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These lesson plans use the Ken Burns’ documentary "Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War" to explore what motivated Waitstill and Martha Sharp to help refugees.

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Help students develop a larger understanding and appreciation of the Jewish resistance movement during the Holocaust.

Black and white photograph of six Jewish partisans standing in a forest clearing

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Explore the choices of Jewish partisan Sonia Orban, and gain a deeper understanding of the complexities that young people faced during the German occupation of Poland.

Sonia Orbuch, a Jewish partisan in Poland during the Holocaust, and her husband on their wedding day in 1945.

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Explore the choices of Vitka Kempner, a Jewish partisan who chose to resist the Nazis.

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In this lesson, students explore moral and ethical frameworks in relation to teh actions of Frank Blaichman

A young, white, mustachioed man wearing a uniform and a hat tilted to the side

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Understand the many forms that Jewish resistance to fascism, antisemitism, and Nazism took.

Russian partisans, one of them photographer Faye Schulman, gathering together in the forest, Naliboki Forest, Belarus, December 1944. The Molotava Brigade was a partisan group made up mostly of escaped Soviet Army POWs. The woman pictured is Faye Schulman, a Jewish woman who fled into the Naliboki forest with her camera equipment and joined the Molotova Brigade. For two years in the forest she photographed the partisan's activities, worked as medical aid and participated in the partisans raid's.

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Lead middle school students in an 18-week study of identity, membership and belonging, and civic participation through analysis of historical case studies and literature.

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Explore resources that meet the California History–Social Science Framework standards.

Four students sit in a circle in conversation. The student in the center speaks with their hands raised.

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Explore resources that meet the Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework.

Students working in groups in a classroom

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A curation of educational resources for school groups visiting the New England Holocaust Memorial.

A stone sign on the right reads Holocaust, with three glass pillars in view at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, MA.

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Help your students be thoughtful, engaged viewers of Schindler's List with these lesson plans that foster reflection and make contemporary connections to the history.

Picture of a little girl in a red coat standing in front of people.

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