Holocaust jews fighting back

The uprising ended in failure, but it represented a psychological turning point.

Today is January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Antisemites and Jew-haters around the world will undoubtedly come out of the woodwork to celebrate, simultaneously claiming that A) the Holocaust didn’t happen and B) it was good that it did. In the immortal words of standup comic Ron White, “You can’t fix stupid.”

In addition to the sheer magnitude of this crime against humanity, one of the especially tragic aspects about the Holocaust was the fact that the overwhelming majority of the victims submitted passively to their fact. For the most part, they died without putting up a fight.

But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead of submitting meekly to the jackboots. Among them were the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of

The Battle

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising actually occurred in two phases: (1) a smaller-scale uprising that flared up on January 18, , and (2) a longer-term and higher-intensity resistance action from April 19—May 16, The objective was to oppose Nazi Germany&#;s final effort to tr

How did Jews fight back physically?

Organized armed resistance was one of the key ways Jews opposed Nazi persecution in German-occupied Europe.

Jews formed armed resistance groups in over ghettos in occupied areas of Eastern Europe. The organizers of these resistance groups were young men and women who did not want to let the Germans determine when and how they would be killed. Jewish youth movements – especially Hashomer Hatzair – were instrumental in creating these resistance groups.

In addition to trying to organize uprisings, the Jewish underground groups helped Jews to escape from the ghettos and, where possible, to join partisan groups to fight against the Germans and their accomplices.

There were armed uprisings in some ghettos and in several camps, including Treblinka, Sobibor and Auschwitz. The most famous of these revolts was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which the ghetto fighters held off the surrounding German troops for almost a month from April to May 16,

Debunking the myth that Jews did not resist during the Holocaust

If more than 6 million were killed by Nazis, the reasoning seems to go, they must have proceeded passively to their deaths.

By HOWARD REICH
It remains one of the most pernicious myths of the Holocaust: that Jews did not more than 6 million were killed by Nazis, the reasoning seems to go, they must have proceeded passively to their ted movies, TV programs and other popular media showing European Jews being rounded up en masse have entrenched the notion that the victims were complicit in their illuminating new exhibition at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, in Skokie, argues powerfully to the contrary. The Jewish Armed Resistance Galleries, which have a grand opening event on October 29, chronicles multiple ways Jews fought back, despite the hopelessness of their situations.“There is an incorrect stereotype of Jews going like lambs to the slaughter, which is not true,” says Susan Abrams, the museum’s CEO. “It is an often-overlooked aspect of the Holocaust story.”The new galleries (within the museum’s core Karkomi Holocaust Exhibition) spotlight primary d

Untold valor: Jewish resistance during the Holocaust revealed in new documentary

Paula Apsell&#x;s new film tells the stories of  Jews who fought back in the Shoah.

By STEVE LINDEUpdated: MAY 15,

Boston-based filmmaker Paula Apsell’s powerful new documentary, Resistance – They Fought Back, featuring relatively unknown stories of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, will be aired on HOT 8 in Israel on Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 6. Abramorama released the film, which features narration by actors Corey Stoll, Dianna Agron, and Maggie Siff, in New York on April  

“We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was,” says Apsell.

Professor Richard Freund adds, “Instead, it’s widely believed that ‘Jews went to their death like sheep to the slaughter.’ Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the US, Resistance – They Fought Back provides a much-needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity. There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps, and thousands of Jews f

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