Sara Trains Her Army of Women
Learn about the necessity to recruit and train women for an all-female partisan unit.
Sonia Orbuch’s Biography
Learn about the measures taken by a young woman and her family to join a partisan group during the Nazi's forced occupation of Poland.
The Vilna Ghetto Manifesto
Read Abba Kovner’s treatise urging the Jews of the Vilna Ghetto to rise up and resist the Nazis.
Vitka Kempner’s Biography
Learn the story of Vitka Kempner, who as a teenager became a leading figure of the Jewish partisan resistance in Vilna.
The Women Partisans Burn Down a House
Learn about partisan tactics with this retelling of an all-female unit's torching of a perpetrator's home.
What Did Jews in the Ghettos Know?
Consider how Jews living in the ghettos got information about the outside world, and how much they knew about the mass murders occurring across Europe.
Teaching Strategy: Big Paper
In this classroom video, a high school history teacher uses the Big Paper teaching strategy as he shares primary source documents about the Reconstruction era with his students.
White Rose Resistance Group
Hans Scholl, Sophie School, and Christoph Probst conversing outdoors in 1942
Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst in June 1942. They were members of the White Rose, a resistance group that condemned Nazism.
Bacon's Rebellion
This 1905 painting by Howard Pyle depicts the burning of Jamestown in 1676 by black and white rebels led by Nathaniel Bacon.
Capture of Jewish Resistance Fighters
Jewish resistance fighters who fought against the SS and German army during the Warsaw ghetto uprising between April 19 and May 16, 1943, are captured.
Hawaii’s Legacy of Colonialism
Use this timeline and article excerpt to help students understand Native Hawaiians' protests against the Thirty Meter Telescope on Maunakea.