Mutual Assistance within the Ghetto Walls
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Mutual Assistance within the Ghetto Walls

Categories Holocaust 
Tags: European Jewry 
grades:  High School (9-12) 

Lesson Summary:

This lesson from Yad Vashem highlights the incredible power of compassion in terrible times:
"Trapped behind ghetto walls, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto suffered from starvation and the Nazi decrees designed to dehumanize them. Jews, however, found many ways to help each other through these difficult times. This lesson plan will highlight some of the organizations that were established to coordinate social welfare activities"



Objectives

  • Students will understand the dire situation of Jews living in ghettos.
  • Students will discuss some of the dilemmas that various Jewish communal leaders faced at the time.
  • Students will learn about different organizations that were established by Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto in order to help other Jews in the ghetto. Through this, they will begin to understand about how man's inhumanity toward man can be combated by man's humanity toward man.
  • This lesson will focus on some of these very giving people. Whether it was through mutual aid, soup kitchens, youth movements, or the smuggling that was done by young children, there were hundreds who, despite their own hardships in the ghetto, continued to maintain their dignity in order to help others.

Be Inspired:The ideas included are offered as starting points as you and your students explore, discover and live the lessons. Be sure to elicit and encourage student and parent participation, consistently reinforcing the value being addressed. Allow lessons to authentically develop and change based on engagement and interests.


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