Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

This Educator Video Toolbox is aligned to Echoes and Reflections echoesandreflections.org/, a comprehensive Holocaust education program that delivers professional development and a rich array of multimedia resources for middle and high school teachers. This video complements Lesson 6: Resistance echoesandreflections.org/the-l.... It addresses key historical context, supports your teaching, and provides a methodological and pedagogical framework to help you effectively teach the subject of spiritual and armed resistance during the Holocaust. Professional development programs for middle and high school educators are taking place around the country; you can find one near you here echoesandreflections.org/sign-....
A common question when we’re studying about the Holocaust is, “Why didn’t the Jews resist?” But they did. In this video we discuss different forms and types of resistance, both spiritual and armed. In the unprecedented inhumanity of the Holocaust there were Jews who found the strength and the courage, both physical and spiritual, to retain their humanity and resist hopelessness and dehumanization. The story of their resistance is a human story that shows the heights that human beings can reach even in the depths of despair.
SPEAKERS
Sheryl Silver Ochayon is a staff member of the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, and its Program Director for Echoes and Reflections.
For additional information about Echoes and Reflections visit echoesandreflections.org/
Archival footage and photographs:
- Yad Vashem Photo Archive.
- Yad Vashem Film Archive.
- USC Shoah Foundation.
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum Archives.
- Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Footage of the Warsaw Ghetto, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
- Bundesfilmarchiv/Transit Film GmbH.
- Agentur Karl Höffkes
- Footage of Rudolf Bohlmann used with the kind permission of Eginhard Teichmann.
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of the Gasul Family.
- Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance.
- The Kingsport Times.
- The Oil City Derrick.
- The Associated Press.
- The Lowell Sun.
- Photograph of the Hellman Family (Avraham-Adolf, Charlotte, Max-Mordecai, Lilly and Edith-Rina), courtesy of Micha Hellman, Kfar Tavor, Israel.
Material and quotes from:
Echoes and Reflections, Teacher’s Resource Guide, a publication of the Anti-Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation and Yad Vashem.
Abba Kovner Manifesto courtesy The Moreshet Archive, Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Center
Yad Vashem Archive
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[@tessa4850]

its weird that this in my school was never teached/told to us, its also such an important part of history.

[@kuzeyboy]

I have never thought about spiritual resistance before but now I realise that perhaps, it's more important than physical. Such brief enlightenment in what must have seen a sea of dispair.

[@sudhindrabukkebag7502]

Such tragedy should never happen again oh God be kind on helpless

[@johnsakowicz6723]

Amidah: This was the prayer of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust.
The Amidah (Hebrew: תפילת העמידה‎, Tefilat HaAmidah, "The Standing Prayer"), also called the Shmoneh Esreh (שמנה עשרה‎, "The Eighteen", in reference to the original number of constituent blessings: there are now nineteen), is the central prayer of the Jewish liturgy.

[@KonradofKrakow]

Thank you for mentioning the hoisting of the Polish and Jewish flags above the Warsaw ghetto (I feel this is a little known fact that needs to be shared more) HOWEVER you did make some rather basic mistakes in other parts of the video. For example, at 7:57 that is not where Warsaw is on the map. Also, the narrator incorrectly states that Warsaw is east of Vilnius while in fact it is (south) west of it. Please try to avoid making such rudimentary mistakes, because it puts into question the validity of the other information you share, something that shouldn't be happening.

[@jamieseiple]

For honor and human dignity we must fight!

[@marilyntape508]

😔but I admire all of the resistance in any way

[@evangeleab3871]

So distressing to watch. So many of my ancestors were Jewish. This is disturbing.

[@1928piotrus]

Regretable errors on the film presented here . At 13:55 minuts the pictures is taken from the film made by Poles WARSAW uprising in 1944, are not the Jewish uprising in 1943.
You can see the Polish underground Home Army (AK) two color band on the right arm of the man.
Please compare with the pierre zwolinski Tele Polonica Warszaw Uprising on YOU TUBE.
Elimination of the THOSE sequences is ABSOLUTLY necessaire.

[@marilyntape508]

this can happen again and who will be the megalomaniacs next time😐

[@diyashikha93]

And I was born exactly 50years after the Great Synagogue of Warsaw was destroyed...16 May 1993...

[@JoseVasquez-ii4pz]

O wish Samson has live in this days n defend them like in the Times of the Bible

[@ray-cx3he]

Sick I would never ever step foot in germany

[@taqiyasir8086]

Never Forget.🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🕎🕎😭