The Florida Holocaust Museum and USC Shoah Foundation have joined efforts to create digital classroom resources built around video testimony of local Holocaust Survivors on an educational platform called IWitness. IWitness is a free educational website offering audiovisual testimonies for use across the curriculum. Through this partnership, lessons are built based on video testimonies of Holocaust survivors who settled in Florida. This activity was created by The FHM’s Curator of Education & Director of Research, Ursula Szczepinska. It provides students with information about various forms of resistance (violent, non-violent) among Jews during the Holocaust, with the focus on non-violent forms. The activity features video testimony of Helen Fagin and Sam Schryver.

Lesson objectives:

• Students will examine the ways in which Europe’s Jewish community was affected by the Holocaust.
• Students will consider the long-term impact of the Holocaust on the 20th and 21st centuries.
• Students will examine how the Nazi dehumanization of Jews allowed them to commit atrocities.
• Students will learn to work with primary sources: artifacts and personal stories from the Holocaust.