Discover the Hidden History of the Holocaust
Discover the Hidden History of the Holocaust
Explore: What is a Partisan?
Explore: What is a Partisan?
Approximately 30,000 Jews throughout Eastern and Western Europe - many of them teens - fought back during the Holocaust as Jewish partisans.
JPEF develops and distributes effective educational materials about the Jewish partisans and their life lessons, bringing the celebration of heroic resistance against tyranny into educational and cultural organizations.
Watch: Our Documentary Films
Watch: Our Documentary Films
Witness the resistance of the partisans and hear their stories of endurance, struggle, and victory against the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Each 3-24-minute film tells the true story of courage and survival in the words of actual Jewish partisans.
Teach: Resources for Educators
Teach: Resources for Educators
Captivate and inspire students with free, ready-to-use curricula for teaching History, Leadership, Ethics and Jewish Values through the examples of Jews who fought back during the Holocaust. Lessons are appropriate to 6th – 12th grades.
Lesson Plans and Activities: Interactive and stimulating lessons that generate critical thinking, teacher guides, classroom discussion prompts, films, drawings, maps and photographs examine the unique resistance of the Jewish partisans during the Holocaust.
Study Guides and Biographies: Extraordinary personal stories of Jewish resistance and survival from partisans, revealed through video testimonies. Study guides that stimulate discussion on a variety of topics from Ethics of War to Jewish Women in the Partisans.
Empower: Our Featured Partisan Story
Empower: Our Featured Partisan Story
Meet one of JPEF’s 54 featured Jewish partisans as they share their stories of loss, resistance, survival, and perseverance with video testimonials, images and documents, and a short biography. These unique stories tell of partisan activities in Poland, Russia, Greece, Italy, France, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Ukraine and other countries.
Ben Kamm
18-year-old Ben Kamm, born March 21, 1921, had a comfortable life surrounded by family and friends in Warsaw, Poland. Ben joined the Russian partisan group of more than 1,600 fighters led by General Fyodorov. He was trained to place mines under train tracks and disrupt the equipment flow. Ben also led an attack on the Janon Lubelski labor, camp, freeing the 600 Jews held inside.