Lesson Summary:
From Facing History and Ourselves:
"This lesson is a student-driven learning project based on the stories of individual partisans that makes use of our Explore the Partisans section and other resources from the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation’s website. We encourage educators to implement the Understanding Resistance lesson prior to beginning this project to ensure that students have built sufficient foundational knowledge about the partisans.
The project culminates in a student-created classroom museum exhibition about the Jewish partisans. Through the careful exploration of individual partisans’ experiences, students can arrive at a larger understanding and appreciation of the Jewish resistance movement during the Holocaust."
Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Understand the term “Jewish partisan”
- Define and discuss the concept of resistance
- Relate the importance of resistance to the Jewish partisans
- Summarize the goals of the Jewish partisans
- Analyze words and phrases written by Abba Kovner in his call to resistance