Jewish Resistance To The Holocaust

Resistance in the mist of WWII and the Holocaust occurred all across Europe and the occupied territories of Nazi Germany. The three groups I’m going to discuss are Zegota, White Rose, and Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Each one of these came from three very different areas, but they each resisted Nazi ideology. Each group has their own reason for why they decided to take a stand, whether morally, politically, or religious reasons and while there are differences between the groups many of them have overlapping reasons for their desire to resist.

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.

Examining any issue pertaining to the Holocaust is accompanied with complexity and the possibility of controversy. This is especially true in dealing with the topic of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust. Historians are often divided on this complex issue, debating issues such as how “resistance” is defined and, in accordance with that definition, how much resistance occurred. According to Michael Marrus, “the very term Jewish resistance suggests a point of view.” Many factors, both internal such as differences in opinion on when or what resistance was appropriate, as well as external, such as the lack of arms with which to revolt, contributed to making resistance, particularly armed resistance, extremely difficult. When considering acts

As I mentioned at the beginning, Jewish partisans are placed into two categories: Eastern and Western. There was no major resistance in Germany, due to the fact that everything was highly scrutinized by Hitler’s

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).

The holocaust had a major effect on Judaism as a whole. This conflict between tragedy and faith is not new. Jewish history shows us that the jewish people have undergone the most terrible persecutions and genocide at the hands of many oppressors. Whether it be about the pogroms, crusades, destruction of the Temples, the jewish people have been at the brunt of the most terrible atrocities, and yet this does not shake their faith,Anti-Semitism was nothing new. This became even more evident with the unmasking of the holocaust.The philosophical question of “Shall the Judge of the earth not do justice?” applies just as much to the seemingly useless suffering of an individual as to that of six million individuals. If it could be dealt with on an individual basis before the Holocaust, why couldn 't it be dealt with in the same way afterwards? The difference is one of quantity, but the quality of the question remains the same.

The Holocaust began on January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially was over. About six million Jewish civilians perished because of it. There were some people that survived. What impact did the Holocaust have on its survivors? When the Holocaust ended, all survivors suffered from different emotions because they survived the tragedy. The survivors lost loved ones, and they had to keep that memory of the event with them for the rest of their lives. As a result of these emotions, they coped in many negative ways. Survivors of the Holocaust experienced guilt, isolated themselves, and suffered from a mental illness.

In this reflection paper I will be reflecting on the Jewish Americans making America their home and Americans response to the Holocaust. I will first address how the Jewish Americans emigrated from other nations into the United States. Once they got here what they had to do to become Americans but also keeping their Jewish identity visible. I will then talk about the Americans Response to the Holocaust and supply information about Jews in the Holocaust also including my thoughts on the Holocaust by ending in my conclusion. The reason for immigrating to America is the endless opportunities and immense freedom.

The year is 1998, not only was I, Carleigh Irgens, born August 21 in Miles City, Montana but some other big and exciting things happened! Three of the most important events were, The Holocaust History Project was founded, John Gacy; The Clown Killer was convicted of killing young boys and even the death of Paul McCartney’s wife, Linda McCartney.

As we grow up our parents teach us how to be respectful and very well-mannered. They enforce the importance of saying, “Please, thank you, and excuse me,” when needed. Parents also insist we listen and respect our elders, because they have authority over the world since they have been here the longest. We were raised to comply with the demand of someone who had authority over us. According to Patricia Werhane (1), “In the early1960’s Stanley Milgram undertook his noteworthy study of human obedience to authority. Puzzled by the question of how otherwise decent people could knowingly contribute to the massive genocide of the Holocaust during World War II, Milgram designed an experiment that sought to cause a conflict between one’s willingness to obey authority and one’s personal conscience.”

Normally, people in the Jewish resistance would stand for themselves and their families. If those who were non Jewish got caught by the Nazis they would then get the same treatment as the Jews. There were many acts of resistance for the Jews, such as Warsaw ghetto, and various spiritual resistances. The Warsaw Ghetto inspired

Eleven million innocent people died and many did not know what they did or why it was happening to them (Rice 11). The Holocaust happened because of the Germans after World War 2 thought that the reason that their economy was falling down was because of Jewish people. The Holocaust followed the Ladder of Prejudice is a started with speech and moved its way up to “The Final Solution” also known as extermination. Hitler did not start with killing Jews. He killed Jews,Gypsies,homosexuals and many more religions or cultural people and Hitler also sent people to concentration camps if they spoke against the Government, then he moved to the Ladder of Prejudice, he used discrimination, physical attack and, extermination.

People’s understanding of resistance among European Jews throughout the Holocaust is a topic that has been vehemently debated by scholars from various fields of study. These scholars have produced multiple notions regarding the idea of resistance among European Jews, as the debate has developed significantly since the end of World War II. The definition of the term “Jewish resistance,” which has been used to characterize a rather obscure concept, still continues to be a major point of contention in historians’ understanding of the Holocaust. While some scholars who studied the topic in the decades following World War II argued that armed resistance was nearly the only legitimate form of resistance against Hitler and the Nazi’s, other scholars who studied the topic later on contend that this definition has its boundaries. These historians, who argue that other means of defiance must be incorporated into the definition of resistance in the context of the Holocaust, ultimately provide an argument that incorporates more elements that accurately describe the experience of European Jewry and their daily struggle to resist Nazi powers.

This website refers to the thousands of people killed during the Holocaust. During 1933 when the Nazis came to power they believed that Germens were “racially superior” and the Jews seemed “inferior.” This made the Jews seem to be a threat to the German radical community. During this time Germans targeted not only Jews but people because of their perceived “racial inferiority” and just anyone who had something wrong with them (gypsies, the disabled, some Slavic people, Poles, Russians, and others.) Also other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, (Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals.) By 1945 the Germans killed nearly 2/3 of every European Jew as part of the “Final Solution,” which

-In orthodox jews resistance it meant defending judaism.The Jews resisted in a number of ways during the Holocaust. After a few months in the ghettos they started fighting back but they started to late since most people got disease or deported. 600 ghetto people raised up and killed two dozen SS Nazis and 300 prisoners escaped the ghettos and they went to fight against germany in the war. “They stated that if i have to die i'll die like a man not like a sheep.” One of the most notable Jews to fight against Hitler was Hank Greenberg, a professional baseball player and Jew who enlisted before Pearl Harbor. Uprisings also occurred in the death camps, of course the most famous Jewish uprising occurred in the Warsaw Ghetto. Equipped resistance was regularly troublesome as it was hard to secure weapons and Jews were not generally mindful of the horrendous destiny that anticipated them in the concentration camps, so resolving to battle and bite the dust was not generally a simple decision. Numerous Jews opposed in little ways, for example, endeavoring to keep up cleanliness and self-restraint as well as could be expected under unpleasant conditions. Others worked to continue education, including access to libraries and the arts. The communities saw education to the youth to be able live most fully as jews and that's what they had control over. I discovered this quality astounding, in