PALO ALTO, Calif., April 9 (JTA) – Sydney Pickman thought she "knew everything" about the Holocaust.

The 16-year-old from Queens had learned about it in school and at BBYO conventions. But like most of her friends she'd never heard about the Jewish partisans, the young men and women who fought the Nazis.

Her eyes were opened last month, when the San Francisco-based Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation presented a workshop to 200 teenagers at a BBYO convention in the Catskills Mountains in New York.