How Much Do You Know About the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance?

TO BEGIN... HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST AND JEWISH RESISTANCE?

Answer each of these questions with TO LEARN MORE... “true” or “false”: ______1. Adolf Hitler took advantage of the dire WEBSITES economic conditions in Germany in his ascent • Defiance, www.defiancemovie.com to power. • Anti-Defamation League, www.adl.org • Jewish Partisans Educational Foundation, ______2. The Nuremberg Laws were an outcome of the www.jewishpartisans.org Nuremberg War Crime Trials. • Museum of Jewish Heritage, www.mjhnyc.org • Simon Wiesenthal Center, www.wiesenthal.com ______3. The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was also known • The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, www.jfr.org as the German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact. • The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org ______4. Russian partisans and Jewish partisans fought against the Nazis during World War II. BOOKS

______5. Jewish resistance during the Holocaust • Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, by Nechama Tec. Oxford consisted of guerilla fighters who continually University Press, 1993. engaged the German troops in combat. • Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance During the Holocaust by Yitzhak Mais (ed). Museum of Jewish Heritage, April 2007. ______6. There were about 5,000 Jewish partisans— • Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe, by Jews who formed organized, armed resistance Reuben Ainsztein. Harper & Row, 1974. groups and who fought back against the Nazis. • On Both Sides of the Wall, by Vladkka Meed. Schocken Books, June 1993. ______7. Spiritual resistance during World War II was • Resisting the Holocaust, by Ruby Rohrlich (ed.). limited to prayer. Berg, 1998. FILMS ______8. Jewish partisans in or near the Soviet Union relied heavily on the support of Russian • Defiance (2008) partisan groups in their efforts to undermine • Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust (1986) the Nazis. • Flames in the Ashes (1986) • Resistance: Untold Stories of the Jewish Partisans (2001) ______9. The Bielski brothers, whose story is told in the • The Partisans of Vilna (1987) film Defiance, like many other Jewish • Eight short films on various Jewish partisan subjects by partisans, saved the lives of thousands of Jews. the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

(www.jewishpartisans.org/films.php)

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