White Rose Student Essay Contest
Recommended Resources

Please note that many survivor memoirs, Holocaust diaries, and recorded video testimony deal with issues relevant to this year's theme - Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust. This list is meant to serve as a guideline and a starting point for research but students need not limit themselves to this list. Red denotes resources not available through MCHE.

Jewish Resistance During the Holocuaust - USHMM
Jewish Resistance: A Working Bibliography - USHMM

Books
Anflick, Charles. Resistance: Teen Partisans and Resisters Who Fought Nazi Tyranny.
Arad, Yitzhak. Ghetto in Flames.
Bachrach, Susan. Tell Them We Remember.
Dawidowicz, Lucy. The War Against the Jews.
Dwork, Deborah. Voices and Views.
Eliach, Yaffa. Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust.
Glazar, Richard. Trap With A Green Fence.
Gur, David. Brothers for Resistance and Rescue.
Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews.
Koonz, Claudia. "Courage and Choice: Women Who Said No" in Mothers in the Fatherland.
Landau, Elaine. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Langbein, Hermann. Against All Hope: Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps.
Laska, Vera. Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust.
Levin, Dov. Fighting Back: Lithuanian Jewry's Armed Resistance to the Nazis.
Marrus, Michael. The Holocaust in History.
Meed, Vladka. On Both Sides of the Wall.
Milton, Sybil. The Stroop Report.(Part III: Resistance and Rescue)
Muller, Filip. Eyewitness Auschwitz.
Nyiszli, Miklos. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account.
Offer, Dalia. Women in the Holocaust.
Ringelblum, Emmanuel. Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto. Edited by Jacob Sloan.
Sierakowiak, Dawid. The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak.Edited by Alan Adelson.
Smolar, Hersh. The Minsk Ghetto: Soviet-Jewish Partisans Against the Nazis.
Stadtler, Bea. The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance.
Suhl, Yuri. They Fought Back: The Story of the Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe.
Tec, Nechama. Defiance: The Bielski Partisans.
USHMM. Resistance during the Holocaust.
Volavkova, Hana. I Never Saw Another Butterfly.

Videos
Flames in the Ashes. Produced by Ghetto Fighters' House. 1986.
Partisans of Vilna.
Produced by Aviva Kempner and directed by Josh Waletzky.
The Warsaw Ghetto. A BBC Production. 1969.

Online Resources
Anne Frank: The Writer Online Exhibit - USHMM
Armed Jewish Resistance: Partisans - USHMM

Escape Under Fire: The Sobibor Uprising - Yad Vashem

Ghetto Fighters' Museum
Jewish Partisans - USHMM
Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
Jewish Resistance - USHMM
Jewish Uprisings in Ghettos and Camps - USHMM
Killing Center Revolts - USHMM
Partisan Groups in the Parczew Forest - USHMM
Personal Stories of Resistance - USHMM
Resistance in the Smaller Ghettos of Eastern Europe - USHMM
Sobibor
Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos - USHMM
Treblinka
Warsaw Ghetto - USHMM
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Marek Edelman
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - USHMM
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Online Exhibit - USHMM

Teacher's Guides and Resources
The Bielski Brothers and Defiance
Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance
Time Capsule In A Milk Can Learning Guide

General Resources - Online
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Holocaust Encyclopedia
The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students
History of the Holocaust: An Overview
Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
Jewish Virtual Library (JSOURCE)
Yad Vashem

Primary Source Materials - Online
Documents of the Holocaust
MCHE Primary Source Links

 



 

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