Teaching About Resistance During the Holocaust with Primary Sources

Organization: Echoes & Reflections
Common Core Domain: English Language Arts/Literacy, History and Social Studies, Reading: Informational Text, Writing
Grade Level: Grades 8-12
Duration: 120-180 Minutes

Drawing from the archives of the Warsaw Ghetto, this lesson helps students grapple with the question of how we form a factual knowledge of history through analysis of primary source artifacts. The lesson provides resources that address key questions about historical background on resistance, human agency, and first-person testimony.