Research: Jewish Resistance in the Ghettos: Additional Student Resources

This list offers students a starting point for their research. The list is not exhaustive and teachers are encouraged to help students find additional resources. MCHE urges caution when conducting open web-based searches for Holocaust research. Please  research using trusted sites such as the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Holocaust Encyclopedia
• The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students
• Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
• Jewish Virtual Library

• The Aims of Jewish Youth at the Present Time, From an Underground Publication, 1940
• Appeal of the Jewish Fighting Organization to the Polish Underground, Asking for Arms
• Appeal Not to Go to Labor Camps, from an Underground Publication
• The Dilemma of Jewish Self Help
• Educational Problems in the Underground Youth Movement in the Ghetto
• From Notes by Hersh Berlinski on the Aims of the Jewish Fighting Organization
• “The Heroic Resistance of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto,” from The Polish Underground Press
• Jewish Self-Help in Warsaw
• The Last Letter From Mordecai Anielewicz, Warsaw Ghetto Revolt Commander
• Lodz Ghetto Photography of Mendel Grossman
• Photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto
• Response of the Commander of the Armia Krajowa to the Jewish Request For Arms
• Ringelblum On Cooperation Between Jewish Political Parties in the Underground
• The Smuggling of Food Into the Warsaw Ghetto
• Some Ghetto Thoughts on Rescue and Revenge
• The Work of a Jewish Political Party, from an Underground Publication, 1940

Testimony

• Adelson, Alan, ed. The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Edelbaum, Ben. Growing Up In The Holocaust.
• Focal Point – Resistance
• Kaplan, Chaim. Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1999.
• Hilberg, Raul, Stanislaw Staron, and Josef Kermisz editors. The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom. New York, Stein and Day, 1979.
• I Witness Testimony Archive - (requires teacher log-in and allowing access for students)
• Klajman, Jack. Out of the Ghetto. London. Vallentine Mitchell, 2000.
• Korczak, Janusz. Ghetto Diary. New York, Holocaust Library, 1978.
• Lewin, Abraham. A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto.
• Meed, Vladka. On Both Sides of the Wall. Washington, DC, Holocaust Library, 1999.
• Ringelblum, Emmanuel. Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1958.
• USHMM Testimonies
• Shub, Baruch
• Tory, Avraham. Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1990.
• Voices from the Inferno
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Testimonies
• Władysław Szpilman
• Zapruder, Alexandra. Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust.
• Zelkowicz, Josef. In Those Terrible Days: Notes from the Lodz Ghetto. Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, 2002.

• Mordecai Anielewicz
• Adam Czerniakow
• Jacob Gens
• Mendel Grossman
• Janusz Korczak
• Emanual Ringelblum
• Chaim Rumkowski
• Dawid Sierakowiak

• By The Ghetto Gate
• The Lonely Child
• Partisans of Vilna Music
• There Lies Treblinka
• Verdict
• Yisrolik
• Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letstn veg

• Defiant Requiem. PBS
• Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto
• From Despair to Defiance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• The Ghettos
• Lodz Ghetto.
• Not Like Sheep to the Slaughter: The Story of the Bialystok Ghetto.
• Partisans of Vilna.
• Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans. PBS Home Video.

• Jewish Armed Resistance in the Ghettos and Camps, 1941-1944
• Music and the Holocaust
• Resistance – Animated Map
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943

• Adelson, Alan and Robert Lapides. Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege. New York, Penguin Books, 1991.
• Anflick, Charles. Resistance: Teen Partisans and Resistors Who Fought Nazi Tyranny. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 1999.
• Art and the Holocaust
• Art During the Holocaust
• Bauer, Yehuda. “Forms of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.” In Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications, edited by John K. Roth and Michael Berenbaum. New York: Paragon House, 1989.
• Bialystok Ghetto Uprising
• Brundibar
• Dobroszycki, Lucjan. The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941–1944. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984.
• Female Couriers During the Holocaust
• Friedman, Philip. “Jewish Resistance to Nazism: Its Various Forms and Aspects.” in Anthology of Holocaust Literature, edited by Jacob Glatstein, Israel Knox, and Samuel Margoshes. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
• Ghetto Fighters House Museum
• Grossman, Mendel and Frank Dabba Smith. My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto. San Diego, CA, 2000.
• Gurewitsch, Brana. Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust.
• Gutman, Yisrael. The Jews of Warsaw 1939-1943. Harvester Press, Brighton, England, 1982.
• Heartstrings: Music of the Holocaust
• Jewish Councils
• Jewish Fighters in the Cracow Ghetto
• Jewish Resistance
• Jewish Uprisings in the Ghettos and Camps, 1941-1944.
• The Judenrat
• Kassow, Samuel D. Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
• “Let the World Read and Know” The Oneg Shabbat Archives
• Mais, Yitzchak. Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust. New York, Museum of Jewish Heritage, 2008.
• Music and the Holocaust
• Partisans in Vilna
• Religious Life in the Kovno Ghetto
• Resistance During the Holocaust
• Resistance in the Kovno Ghetto
• Resistance in the Smaller Ghettos of Eastern Europe
• Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto
• “Resistance is…” Poem
• Rudavsky, Joseph. To Live With Hope, To Die With Dignity: Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos and Camps. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1997.
• Secret Archives of the Kovno Ghetto
• Shneidman, N.N. The Three Tragic Heroes of the Vilnius Ghetto: Witenberg, Sheinbaum, Gens. Niagara Falls, NY, Mosaic Press, 2002.
• Silverman, J. The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 2002.
• Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos
• Szner, Zvi and Alexander Sened. With A Camera In The Ghetto. New York, Schocken Books, 1977.
• Theresienstadt: Cultural Life
• Theresienstadt: Spiritual Resistance and Historical Context
• To Live With Honor and To Die With Honor
• Vilna During the Holocaust: Health and Welfare Organizations
• Vilna During the Holocaust: The Library
• Vilna During the Holocaust: Religious Life
• Vilna During the Holocaust: Theatre and Music in the Ghetto
• Volavková, Hana and Celeste Raspanti. I Never Saw Another Butterfly:Children’s Drawings and Poems from the Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944.
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• Writers and Poets in the Ghettos