Virtual: Religious Upstanders in Nazi Germany

For Educators in Grades 7-12

Amid Nazi tyranny, persecution, and genocide, a small but important number of individuals and organized groups in Nazi Germany took a stand and resisted. While many were motivated by politics or personal reasons, some were motivated by the morals and values of their deeply held religious beliefs. Religious Jews, Muslims, Catholics, Protestants, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and others all found ways to resist through different means, including practicing their religion after it was banned, using their platform to alert the German population about the regime’s systematic murder, and helping Jews escape deportation and murder. This session features stories of individual religious Upstanders, bringing to light the ways that religion can be a force of change even in the most oppressive of circumstances.  

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1.5 Clock Hours/CPDUs