The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF) empowers young people to fight against antisemitism by utilizing the real-life lessons of young Jewish partisans as role models. JPEF brings the partisans’ legacy of heroic resistance to millions of students and educators worldwide through innovative educational materials, original films, interactive websites, teacher education, classroom lesson plans, and partnerships with global Holocaust organizations. The Jewish partisans fought against antisemitism 80 years ago, and JPEF continues that fight today. Founded in 2000 by filmmaker Mitch Braff, JPEF initially began collecting video testimonies from Jewish partisans to bring what had previously been the unknown history of approximately 30,000 Jews who fought back against the Nazis and their collaborators to the world. By 2001, the organization had launched its website, which currently houses 54 Jewish partisan biographies and interviews. A large number of them feature Jewish women who defied gender norms to resist genocide and hate. By 2014, JPEF had directed and produced 12 PBS-quality short films for use in middle and high school classrooms on subjects ranging from Jewish women in the partisans to the challenges of living and surviving in the forests, finding food, medicine, and shelter during brutally hot summers and freezing winters. Among JPEF’s essential resources are easy-to-use classroom lesson plans on these subjects, as well as many more. JPEF collaborated with Academy Award-winning director Ed Zwick and Paramount Vantage on the film Defiance, about the largest all-Jewish partisan brigade, which was responsible for saving more than 1,200 Jews - women, men, children, and the elderly during the Holocaust. Teaching with Defiance is one of JPEF’s most popular classroom lessons, combining clips from the film, which stars Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber, to teach young people about history, ethics, leadership, and values. In 2024, JPEF launched its newest curriculum, Foundations of Resistance: A Curriculum to Counter Antisemitism for Grades 6-12. Through a series of four lessons, each containing a unique student webquest, young people learn why they should and how they can speak out and stand up against antisemitism and hate in their lives. These lessons, produced with funding from the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education, are available at resist.jewishpartisans.org. Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman is JPEF’s traveling exhibit of 30 photographs with accompanying narratives taken by the only known female Jewish partisan photographer. It has toured the world from San Francisco to Melbourne. A digital exhibit featuring the photographs, narrated by Faye herself and assisted by award-winning actor Jason Isaacs, is now available on the JPEF website at www.jewishpartisans.org/pictures-of-resistance-virtual-exhibit. JPEF’s curriculum materials are available to educators at no cost, including its online professional development courses that award CEUs from Touro College upon completion. Nine lessons, all under one hour, are available on subjects ranging from Tactics of Resistance to Finding Leadership. https://jewishpartisans.org/elearning JPEF hosts another 95 Jewish partisan biographies on its auxiliary site, Jewish Partisan Community, at www.jewishpartisancommunity.org