Education

Online classes about Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on IWitness

A graphic with logos and titles: 19 April 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising / USC Shoah Foundation, IWitness
photo by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

"Being young in the ghetto," is an is an online activity on the IWitness educational website that introduces the topic of what the everyday life was like for young people confined in a ghetto. How did they live? What were their struggles? What gave them comfort?

Invite your students to learn about the experiences of those, whose time of adolescence was marked by World War II. Primary sources – video accounts of the Holocaust Survivors will help you to reach young people, and reflect on the fears and hopes of the conditions inside the ghettos.

Click the link to start the new IWitness classes.

Logo of Jewish Cultural Heritage Project: from right side: logo of Norway grants, logo of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Republic of Poland, logo Polin Museum and JCK project.

www.eeagrants.org, www.norwaygrants.org, www.gov.pl