Students will use a timeline to identify resistance to Nazis.

• Students will look at the timeline on the Spread the Light website for information about resistance.
• Students will consider questions about the events.

Resistance, ghetto, revolt

Look at the timeline on the Spread the Light website for answers to these questions:

• A revolt in the Warsaw Ghetto began in April of 1943. How long were the Jews able to keep up the resistance?
• In August of 1943, there is a revolt at the Treblinka extermination camp and 200 Jews escape. What happens to them?
• In October of 1943, 300 Jews and Soviet POWs escape from Sobibor. How many survive?

Read your answers in class. Discuss the questions below.

• Some people say the Jews did not resist the Nazis. Why do you think they say that? What might they mean?
• Can you think of reasons more Jews did not resist?
• Do you think you or others in your family would have resisted? Why or why not?