Lesson+Plan


 * Name of Course/class**: US History

**Unit Title:** World War II

**Lesson Title:** Jewish Resistance Movements

**Anticipated instructional time:** 50 minute class period

**Enduring Understanding:** To gain perspective of Jewish resistance movements both passive and armed.

**Rationale:** Learning the different types of resistance both Jewish and non, and armed and unarmed is important to understand how resistance can be interpreted. It is important for students to gain perspective of what the resistance movements went through to achieve their goals.

**Goals of the lesson**: G.1.1. To gain perspective about the different types of resistance. G.1.2. To explain different types of resistance.

**Objectives of the lesson**: O.1.1 Students will demonstrate understanding of the different types of resistance. O.1.2. Students will demonstrate understanding of the various individuals and groups involved with helping Jewish runaways.

· US History · 9-12.US.1.1. Students are able to explain the cause-effect relationships and legacy that distinguish significant historical periods from Reconstruction to the present. · 9-12.US.1.2. Students are able to relate previously learned information of these time periods to the context of succeeding time periods.
 * SD K-12 Content Standards: **

**National Content Standards:** · US History · NSS-USH.5-12.8 .3A. The student understands the international background of World War II.

· Worksheet · Notes
 * Instructor Materials: **

· Computer/Laptop · Internet
 * Participant Materials: **

__Sequence__ 1. Pull up the Internet searches. Allow a few minutes for the students to start computers and get the searches up. To send those to Mr. Bjournberg, and keep them up. <span style="font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msolist: ignore;">2. Now go through the questions. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">- Question 1 answer is - **sacrifice by fire.** Second part - **Gypsies, slavs, homosexual, people with disabilities, policital, ideaolgoical, communists, socialists, jehovah’s witness**Added notes – to test, they used the people with disabilities and told the parents that they were going to a hospital, but really killed them. <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Question 2 answer is -  ** guerilla warfare (partisan), sabatoge, raids, assassination, killing informants ** Second part - ** non-violent ways that people resisted the Nazi Holocaust: sheltering jews, listening to allied radio feeds, anti-nazi newspapers, refusing to serve nazi activities ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Discussion –   how would listening to radios be a form of resistance? <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Answer – ** because listening to allied broadcasts and because they were not suppose to have radios. **
 * Teaching Notes / Lesson Script / Procedures: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msobidifontweight: bold;">Question 3 answer is - ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">sent as a hungary diplomat, worked with jewish world congress prevented 10,000’s of jews to be deported, he issued certificates of protection to jews from hungary govt. he formed 30 safe spots that formed the Budapest ghetto. During a march he kept giving certificates and forged papers to save as many as possible. His friends also helped from the govt .  **   Discussion – him and his friends saved the most Jewish people.

<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Question 4 answer is - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**American journalist who helped anti-nazi refugees escape france. His friends forged documents and papers and made safe routes to safty. America sent him to france. He would aid basically anyone who was anti-nazi both jew and non jew. He established French relief org. Amercian relief center, used black market funds to keep it going. His covert activities angered both America and Vichy France govet and was kicked out 1941. Honered by the French govt. and holocaust museum. Saved 2000 peoples.**

<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Question 5 answer - <span style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; msobidifontfamily: Verdana; msofareastfontfamily: Verdana; msolist: Ignore;">** 2. ** ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jews ran into forests. Joined for created Russian partisan groups to harass germans – Belskei brothers – “Defiance” – in forest – ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msoansifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">**3.** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">**Jews in camps rose up against the guards in the death camps, Treblinka, sobibor. Auschwitz – sondercommando rebelled against the SS guards. Tried to blow up crematoria.** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msoansifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">**4.** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">**Underground groups in France resistance groups, nationalistic indifferent countries** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msoansifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">**5.** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">**Palanstine sent parachutists and send aid and helped form resistance** <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msobidifontsize: 9.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold;">Question 6 answer - ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">List several examples used to show the Holocaust took place: nazi papers, stolen stuff: artwork, hair, gold, film, photos, US film of liberated death camps, eye witness statements from both german and non, testimony of Goering, Ohlendorf, and Hoess, survivors  ** Discussion – how unintelligent the Germans were, gave the prosecutors so much evidence. <span style="font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msolist: ignore;">1. After the project questions are over ask, “After seeing all these different ways of resistance what is the best way to resist?” <span style="font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msolist: ignore;">a. Allow for discussion <span style="font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msolist: ignore;">b. Add that the best way, I think, is to survive. To survive was a miracle, against so many odds. The best way then is to survive because people are trying to exterminate you, the opposite of that is to live and would have the greatest effect to undermine the Nazis. <span style="font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msolist: ignore;">2. Then introduce Oscar Schindler and the movie //Schindler’s List//. <span style="font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msolist: ignore;">a. Oscar Schindler was a Czech. He was in the Nazi party in 1938, but not an active member. He begged, bribed, and borrowed anything to get make his money. The key point, is that he did not go into business to save Jews, it was to make money. He ended up in Poland right by a ghetto to get free workers. <span style="font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msolist: ignore;">b. Points to watch for in movie, the goods that were stolen, the Stars on sleeves, and the moments when people are in color. The things in color have significant meaning, because the rest of the movie is and black and white. <span style="font-family: calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msobidifontfamily: calibri; msolist: ignore;">3. Then start the movie.
 * 1. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Armed resistance – Ask for examples and give the example of the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">warsaw ghetto  ** Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB started it. they used “moltov cocktails”, hand granades, small arms. They resisted for about a month, till they litterally raised warsaw ghetto. why here do you think, why talk bout this one? Or why is this so big? – reason there was underground tunnels where they could hide out. – had to raise the ghetto to get them all. Others – Lodz ghetto no such thing as underground.
 * Discussion - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">why there? – forest provided cover – knew the forest better than Germans. Moved around lot. – being Partisan got some support from Russia – weapons supplies. **
 * 6. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Spiritual resistance - ** creating Jewish cultural institutions, continuing to observe religious holidays and rituals, providing clandestine education, publishing underground newspapers, and collecting and hiding documentation, as in the case of the Oneg Shabbat archive in Warsaw that would tell the story of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, despite its destruction in 1943.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Question 7 answers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> **–**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">**Denmark: Fisherman ferried 7,200 jews to Sweden**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">**France: Towns would shelter jews – one town 3000-5000 alone**
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jan Karski: transmitted to the outside world of what the Nazis were doing in death camp. **