This talk, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students, will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to gain an understanding of the different types of resistance during the Holocaust; to study original archival material to comprehend the events of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; to consider why the event was so significant and to reflect on the event 80 years on.
Using sources from The Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archive of material on the Nazi era and the Holocaust, this workshop will critically consider commonly held perceptions of ordinary people as resisters and perpetrators during the Holocaust.
As part of the Library’s ‘Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust’ event series, Judy Batalion will be discussing her acclaimed new book, ‘The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos’.
Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is largely understood as rare armed group activities in the Nazi-occupied East, for example, ghetto uprisings or partisan activities. By contrast, this talk focuses on forgotten individual acts of resistance, like the case of Hertha Reis, who protested in plain daylight against the persecution in 1941, a few months before the mass deportation started in the capital of the Third Reich.
