Jewish Resistance

“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” This quote was expressed by the renowned novelist, Ernest Hemingway. Speaking of Hemingway, despite being an exceptionally successful novelist he was a very depressed man and often turned to alcohol to dwindle his feelings of depression. In collaboration with alcohol, the novelist, who established his literary dominance during the 1920’s, wrote amazing pieces of american literature. Hemingway was joined with many American icons including: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, Babe Ruth, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, and many more famous men and women. With the amount of huge influences listed, the 1920s were undoubtedly a huge contributor in shaping American culture.

Although the Jews tried to resist, many factors were against them, such as lack of weapons and resources, trickery, fear, and the crushing power of the Germans. Many people refused to participate in these uprisings, but for those who chose to rebel, they served as an example for all of camp residents. In Night this happened also when the three inhabitants were hung and shown to the entire camp. Those who conformed to justice paid the ultimate price, but with that other learned what not to do. They sacrificed themselves unknowingly for their

“You call me misbeliever, cutthroat dog, And spet upon my Jewish gaberdine” (Shakespeare 34). Groups and people have helped resist during the Holocaust which helped the affected people and it may be important for young people to learn from these responses.The Armee Juive were a French Jewish partisan group during the Holocaust who participated in the 1944 uprising and smuggled money from Switzerland to help Jews escape and hide into neutral Spain. The Jewish resistance groups were the most direct form of Jewish opposition against the Nazis during the Holocaust. Attacking the German military trucks and trains, the Armee Juive conducted missions to sabotage Nazis and rescue Jews. The warsaw ghetto uprisings where hundreds of Jews fought against Germans and disobeyed them is an example of a resistance effort that was employed during the Holocaust.

Within the ghettos, the resisters did enact in multiple attempts at fighting the Nazis, but did require help from outside defenses, such as Great Britain and the Soviet Union. A quite notable occurrence would be that of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, which resulted in many killings and the destruction of the Ghetto itself,

Non-violent resistance began to evolve as the Jews were transported to the concentration camps. Upon their initial arrival in the concentration camps, inmates attempted to aid each other in various ways, such as by giving those that were extremely malnourished extra food or attempting to lessen the workload on those that were weaker by taking their place; these acts, although not aimed directly against the SS, were simply keeping one another alive. These acts can be considered under Bauer’s definition of resistance in that the groups’ motives in sustaining themselves as a whole was in direct opposition to the central idea of the SS to break down and destroy the Jewish population. These acts also helped lead to the later active, armed resistance in that they helped to keep inmates alive and maintain their strength, as well as providing them with a will to resist.

Armed resistance groups are nothing new. There is a deep history with gun clubs, which stem back to the Civil Rights era in the 1960’s. Frustrated by the inhumane treatment of Blacks, political activist Huey P. Newton and classmate, Bobby Seale, formed the Black Panther

One person who was linked to armed resistance, but not directly involved, was Albert Wielkabroda. It is stated that ‘in the second World War, Sutin managed a small group, consisting of Jewish partisans that gathered weapons and fought the Nazis in Poland’ (Hanson). Adolfo was fifteen when his armed resistance started. Adolfo would rust Nazi equipment by using chemicals and build detonators for resistance explosives. Adolfo once said that “For the first time, I didn’t feel entirely [powerless] following the death of my mother and friend” (Berger). Another quote was “I had the feeling I was avenging them” (Berger). As stated earlier, The Edelweiss Pirates were a group of youth, about 15-19, who would oppose the Nazi youth. The Pirates would often disobey the rules set by the Nazi government, and sometime, fight the Nazi youth. “As war progressed…many pirates became active in the underground resistance movement” (Faces of Courage). It was told that “Groups of Edelweiss Pirates made armed raids on military depots and deliberately sabotaged war productions” (Faces of Courage). Youra, Jean, and Robert

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)

Six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust between the year 1939 and the year 1945. There were many resistance efforts in this time. Many revolts erupted when the talk of killing centers came around. Clandestine parachutists were dropped over Hungary and Slovakia to aid all Jews in hiding. One person involved in these resistance efforts was Eugene Lazowski. Eugene was a doctor who was a hero in the Holocaust. He became a hero by saving lives by sneaking over a fence of a ghetto to treat the ill or wounded and creating a fake epidemic.

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

While Jewish resistance was a help was big influence to the Holocaust, the non-jewish resistance was substantially bigger. Some of the groups that helped were, the US, USSR, and Germans. All of these groups had many reason why they wanted to fight/rebel against the Axis of Power. Some wanted to keep their country's interest and beliefs.

This group was created from branches of the Polish underground resistance, who realized that the entire Jewish population was in grave danger and that unless groups were organized and coordinated to help

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If the Germans, instead of being resisted by force of arms, had been passively permitted to establish themselves wherever they pleased, the halo of glory and courage surrounding the brutality of military success would have been absent, and public opinion in Germany itself would have rendered any oppression impossible.” He taught non-resistance as proper defense to violence. For such antiwar pacifists, all participation in war is morally wrong.

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