Product Description

• Student age range: 14-16 

• History 

• NSW Curriculum links: 

• • Stage 5 History, Depth Study (core): Australia at war (1939-c. 1945), The experiences of Jewish people and other victims in the Holocaust 

• • Stage 5 History, Depth Study (option): The Holocaust (1933-1945), Key figures of the ghettoes (Emanuel Ringelblum), Differing forms of resistance, Suggested case study 

• Time: 50 minutes 

This lesson focuses on resistance, introducing students to two examples of resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto: the Ringelblum Archive and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Students will consider contestability in light of the initial interpretation that Jews did little to resist the Holocaust. 

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Download Worksheet – Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto