The International School for Holocaust Studies

Lesson 7

Rescuers and Non-Jewish Resistance

In this lesson you learn about non-Jewish resistance and rescue efforts during the Holocaust. Additional information is available on many of the topics you study in this lesson by clicking on the links below:

• Anne Frank (encyclopedia entry)
• Anne Frank (photograph)
• Aristides de Sousa Mendes
• Giovanni Palatucci
• Jews Waiting in Line to Obtain Visas in Front of the Japanese Consulate in Lithuania (photograph)
• Oskar Schindler (Righteous Among the Nations entry)
• Oskar Schindler (photograph)
• Raoul Wallenberg (encyclopedia entry)
• Raoul Wallenberg (Righteous Among the Nations entry)
• Raoul Wallenberg (photograph)
• Rescue efforts in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France
• Rescue of Danish Jewry in 1943
• Righteous Among the Nations
• Sempo Sugihara (encyclopedia entry)
• Sempo Sugihara (photograph)
• Varian Fry (encyclopedia entry)
• Varian Fry (Righteous Among the Nations entry)

For more information about Jan Karski, click here.

Key Words

• France (Vichy)
• Righteous Among the Nations

Encyclopedia

• Denmark
• Joop Westerweel
• Miep Groenendijk and Dot
• Partisans
• Slovak National Uprising 
• Warsaw Polish Uprising 
• Zegota

Photographs

• A Table with a Removable Top in Which Fernando Pchipichi Was Hidden by a Non-Jew in Rome
• Fishing Boat Used by Gilbert to Smuggle Jews Off the Coast of Denmark
• Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Garden of the Avenue of the Righteous
• The Righteous Gentiles Medallion
• Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Tree Planting by Righteous Gentiles Maria Kann and Wladislava Bartushevik

Artifacts

• Bicycle Used by the Sister Mary Rose Ginst to Carry Messages to Different Monasteries That Hid Jewish Children

Online Exhibitions

• New Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem: Gallery of Rescue