Joanne’s award-winning narrative-non-fiction book is based on her extensive research and interviews with elderly women, who as girls, had actively and successfully defied the Nazis and their collaborators. Their true stories show that the Jewish People did not go, “silently like sheep to the slaughter.”
Written in partnership with Child Holocaust Survivor, Miriam M. Brysk, Ph.D, this true story of an indomitable little girl who lived in the brutal forest along with combat partisans provides a new and inspiring perspective on the role of children in anti-Nazi Resistance.
For groups who have little to no background in the events that led up to, and occurred during and after the Holocaust. Learn about the origins of antisemitism, the break between Judaism and Christianity in 70 CE, antisemitism in the Middle Ages, the Russian Revolution and The Pale of Settlement, pogroms, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the devastation of WWI, Versailles Treaty, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the occupation of Poland, the establishment of ghettos, concentration, and death camps.
The events that led up to the heroic Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are both very human and very complex. Learn about the extraordinary heroism of the resistance including the remarkable Ringelblum Archive, the manufacture of weapons, the intrepid couriers, and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews’ annual Daffodil Day campaign to commemorate this historic event.
The Jewish People have lived in the region now known as Poland for almost 1,000 years. During these centuries, they have practiced their religious traditions whenever possible. Among these is the placement of a Mezuzah, which contains verses of the torah on parchment on the door posts of their homes. Learn about what happened to these Mezuzahs during the Holocaust, and how the founders of Warsaw’s Mi Polin Art Gallery and Studio are finding and preserving remnants of these Mezuzahs in bronze.
April 19, 2022
Educator Training
"Jewish Anti-Nazi Resistance"
Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust
Resource Center
Las Vegas, Nevada
Teacher Training
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