Courage to Act Curriculum
About the guide
These Pre- and Post-Visit lessons provide support for your students’ visit to the Museum’s exhibition Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark. This major exhibition, created for students aged 9 and up, tells the remarkable story of the rescue of the Danish Jews during the Holocaust. Together, Jewish and non-Jewish neighbors of all ages mobilized to create one of the most effective—and exceptional—examples of mass resistance, mutual aid, and escape in modern history. Nearly 95% of Denmark’s Jewish population was saved.
This curriculum was written by Dawn Panebianco.
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