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A
Letter from Judith Meisel —
pg. 1
A Statement
from the Filmmakers —
pg. 2
Curriculum
Rationale —
pg. 3
Educational
Standards —
pg. 4
Part One—
“I Knew that I Had to Tell My Story” —
pg. 6
Part
Two—
“Everybody
Was Brave. Everybody Wanted to Live” — pg.12
Part Three—
“We Only Wanted to Survive as Jews” — pg. 20
Part
Four—
“One Person Can Do a Lot” — pg. 28
Appendixes
A.
MAP: Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life in Europe by 1933 — pg. 36
B. MAP: Ghettos in Occupied Europe, 1939-1944 — pg. 37
C. MAP: Major Concentration Camps in Occupied Europe, 1943-1944 — pg. 37
D. MAP: Judy's journey from Lithuania to Denmark — pg. 38
E. MAP: Denmark — pg. 39
F. Sample News Article — pg. 40
Bibliography — pg. 42
Additional
Resources —
pg. 44
To view any of the video clips below, simply click on the videocam icon next to the description.
Judy
Meisel compares the racial discrimination she witnessed in Philadelphia
to the events she endured during the Holocaust. She then devoted
her life to Civil Rights issues.
Alex
Christensen is an Archivist at the Danish Resistance Museum. He
was a Resistance Saboteur and he speaks about the Danish people saving
Jews.
As
the Nazis prepared to deport Danish Jews to death camps, Denmark
launched a secret rescue operation, ferrying Jews across to neutral
Sweden.
