Teenage Women Who Fought Back
Free Teacher Training: A Unique Perspective On Women’s History Month and World War II

• Free, short film and curriculum for 8th-12th grade
  Inspire students with the nearly forgotten history of thousands of young Jewish women who fought back against the Nazis and their collaborators as partisans – organized, armed resistance fighters.
  
  
• Every Day the Impossible: Women in the Partisans
  Receive this free 15 minute film – with previously unseen interviews – and accompanying study guide for Social Studies, History, English, and other subjects. Single, 25-/50-minute lesson or multi-day unit.
  
  
• Helps fulfill state Social Studies content standards
  10.8: Causes & consequences of World War II and the Holocaust, including “abortive revolts such as… the Warsaw Ghetto” – companion lesson on successful armed Jewish resistance.
  
  Sunday, March 18
  Jewish Community High School of the Bay
  1835 Ellis Street
  San Francisco
  10:00 a.m. - Noon
  
  Lunch will be provided.
  
  Participants will receive:
  • Jewish Partisan curriculum
  • Posters and stickers for your classroom
  • Complimentary DVD of short films narrated by Ed Asner, Larry King, and Tovah Feldshuh
    
    

Co-presented by the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation, Facing History And Ourselves, and The Curriculum Initiative.

This workshop made possible in part by grants from Suzanne and Elliott Felson, the Orbuch Family, the Epstein/Roth Foundation, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the Koret Foundation, the Righteous Persons Foundation, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany-Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research, Documentation and Education, the Zisovich Fund of Jewish Family & Children’s Services and the Holocaust Memorial/Education Fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund.