Holocaust Resistance: The Largest Jews Revolt Holocaust Resistance

“The shooting massacres expanded during the summer within weeks killing units devastated hundreds of Jewish communities. They slaughtered more Jews than the Nazis has murdered in the past eight years. About 1.3 million Jews were killed one by one, by the 3,000 men in the four Einsatzgruppen their support troops local police and collaborators all with assistance from Wehrmacht. Most of the 1.3 million murders occurred in 1941”(“Mass Murder”p.212). “We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter! True we are weak and defenseless, but the only reply to the murder is revolt brothers! Better to fall as free fighters than to live by the mercy of the murderers arise! Arise with your last breath” (Mass Murder p. 213). “They had a mobile killing van that gassed Jews who were being deported to the crematoria at Chelmno, Poland. Billowing smoke testifies to the fierce fighting between German troops

Many people know of the Holocaust and its outcome, but what of its resisters? Resistance in this time was risky because of the dangers of the Nazis finding, torturing, and killing the resisters. Despite these dangers, man people would still resist, armed, unarmed, and verbally. Many of the resisters were not caught because they were indirectly affecting the progress of the “Final Solution” as it was referred to. One such way was to convince others to resist and fight while you get others to aid in the fight. Another was displayed by Yvett Farnoux when “She was in charge of finding safe houses and food for resistance fighters, their families, and Jews in hiding” (Davison).

At the time of the Holocaust, Jews used armed and unarmed forms of resistance in order to retain their humanity. Armed resistance was when the Jewish people fought physically to avenge the slaughter of so many of their people. One example of this type of resistance was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. “In April-May 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rose in armed revolt after rumors that the Germans would deport the remaining ghetto inhabitants to the Treblinka killing center. (Jewish resisitance article)

When someone mentions the Holocaust, the image that come to the minds of most people is that of the starving Jews in concentration camps. Most people automatically think of the horrors that the Jews went through, while some may even wonder how something as horrible as the Holocaust could have been done. Not many people stop to think about how the Jews resisted. Jews resisted in small acts almost every day. Whether it was something as small as praying or as large as blowing up a supply train, Jews were able to block the Nazis from completely wiping out the Jewish culture. One particular group of Jews who resisted were the partisans. The partisans were armed groups formed to fight secretly against an occupying force. The Partisans resisted Nazi

Armed resistance is the most commonly thought of form of defiance when thinking about the Holocaust. This idea in large part originated from a book published in 1961 by Raul Hilberg, an Austrian historian who was one of the first scholars to examine the topic of resistance. In his book, The Destruction of European Jews, Hilberg argues that only

    The Holocaust was a devastating period of time where German soldiers mistreated Jews horrifically, eventually killing over 6 million. While this was going on, there were resistance efforts. This included resistance from the Jews, and Germans. Three impactful examples of resistance efforts include the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,  the White Rose Society, and the Sonderkommando Revolt. All of these groups worked to liberate Jews and opposed the Nazis.

Jewish people fought against the Nazis, and did not always use violence. They used spiritual resistance to rebel without actually fighting. One example of spiritual resistance is the cultivation of secret libraries kept in many ghettos throughout Germany and Poland. One author states “Germans forbade religious services in most ghettos, so many Jews prayed and held ceremonies in secret … In Warsaw alone, in 1940, 600 Jewish prayer groups existed.” (“Spiritual Resistance”). These peaceful prayer groups where a form of unarmed resistance as they were going agains the Nazi’s orders, but not fighting

During the Holocaust, there were many resistance groups and people. The Jewish resistance, however, started in 1942. The people in the Jewish resistance consisted of people who were against the German and Nazis’ ways. There were not many Jews who knew what was going on or where they were going when they got on those trains but the people who knew tried to resist. They would either run away from the trains or attack the captors. Others committed suicide that way they didn’t even go to the camp to get tortured. The people that would disobey the Nazis would get a punishment, which may include additional work to more extreme, execute on the spot. ("The White Rose - A Lesson In Dissent")

Resistance in the holocaust happened in groups and within these groups they planned different attacks. The biggest group in the ghettos was the Z.O.B. and it was formed mostly by young men, but it was led by a 23 year old man named Mordecai Anielewicz. The Z.O.B contained fewer than 1000 working on fighting the Germans and all of those people wanted to defeat them. All the members of the Z.O.B wanted nothing but to win against the Germans and get all Jews out of their misery. Although that goal wasn’t achieved, they were the most successful group in killing the Nazi and Germans, and destroying camp

Some resistance groups made it far in the Holocaust, some didn't make it through the terror. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is an example of this, they may not have made it through, but they kept fighting for almost a month. It was nearly impossible to beat the odds, but this did not stop

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Many think the Jews did not resist, yet they resisted in ways that did not hurt other people. The Jews, an empathetic group of people, resisted by upholding their religion in secret prayer and by documenting the terror they were forced to endure. This practice was called Oneg Shabbat. In the Warsaw ghetto, even through all of the pain and starvation, Jews recorded the details of what went on inside the ghetto and kept track of the living, buried the evidence in three milk cans, of which only two have been discovered. These individuals wanted future people to know what they experienced. These milk cans kept alive the legacy of these Jews and honor their lives and bravery. As Elie Wiesel said, “Even in darkness, it is possible to create light.” The same type of resistance can not be said of the Kurdish people. Instead of upholding their culture, they chose to resort to violence, only furthering the mass murder of their own people. The way in which Jews were treated throughout the Holocaust and how they chose to react with courage, rather than the violent eruptive behavior of the Kurds, makes the Holocaust a unique

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The constant fear, terror, hunger with the worst conditions, daily, in the camps made it hard and dangerous for the victims to resist. Nevertheless, one of the ways to resist was the spiritual resistance; keeping their traditions, practice Judaism and perform rituals as much as possible, even if it means to risk their life doing so. In the tale "Circumcision" (Eliach, 1982), we witness a daring act by a mother, who asks a German soldier for his knife in order to circumcise him. She performs a fearless act and presents her faith by circumcised her son in front of the German soldier. This bold act is sure a resistance (p.151).

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