Partisan Groups In The Holocaust

The author Elie Wiesel said, “There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win”. People often wonder how there was barely any resistance to the Nazis without realizing that the resistance was hidden just under the Germans nose’s. One such resistance group was called the Jewish Fighting Organization. The group was otherwise known as the ZOB. The Jewish Fighting Organization aimed to gain control of the Warsaw Ghetto because they could no longer stand by and watch their family and friends be deported to concentration camps.

During the Holocaust, In what ways did the Jews resist against the Nazis?. World War II was a terrible time for the Jewish people. The Nazis packed thousands of Jews in really small ghettos together and gave them terrible conditions to live with. The Jews were then later sent to concentration camps which even had worse conditions than the ghettos. During the Holocaust, the Jewish people participated in both armed and unarmed resistance in order to earn their freedom and hope.

Throughout the Holocaust, Jews organized resistance movements in ghettos, concentration, and extermination camps. Although they had virtually no weapons and faced one of the largest arsenals in the world, the Jewish people fought for their honor and freedom. Without any hope victory and in the face of death, resistance fighters found the courage to take on evil in its purest form. Their efforts must not go in vein; to them we must accord our respect. This is a brief testimony of their fight against the Nazi regime.

Many Jewish women did not join the partisans out of fear, and felt that their role was to remain loyal to their family, even if that meant death, and many men agreed with this. We see this with Meyer Orbuch who refused to take his sister into his partisan group saying, “no girls can go with us. Only boys can go (JPEF2).” So the women that did join partisans were already breaking free of the traditional roles that many people felt they should be playing as women. Women that joined the partisans wanted to live, and to avenge the humiliation that had been thrown upon them and their families. This concept of women wanting to fight and use a gun broke conventional roles and shows that they were not bound by

In 1939, World War II began when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party invaded Poland, causing six million Jewish people to fear for their lives. This fear began when all people had to complete a census and carry an identification card. Second, the Jews had to wear the Star of David and they were forced into ghettos. Third, they were taken to the concentration and death camps. In The Diary of Anne Frank, “Violins of Hope,” and “Resistance During the Holocaust” we see different ways of acting; actively or passively resisting Nazi rule. These stories demonstrate how people can best respond to tyranny; by actively resisting because it breaks the war machine, brings some hope, and can lead to the withdrawal of opposing forces.

With authorization from the Nazi party allocated to its soldiers, troops confiscated Jewish property, pillaged numerous synagogues and stores, and murdered Jews in a short period of time. Reliable assistance to the suffering Jews was hard to find because of the Nazis’ brainwashing of the nation through abundant propaganda. This kind of widespread discrimination inhibited the Jewish people’s ability to speak out against this obvious prejudice. While these attacks were just the tip of the iceberg in comparison to later deeds committed by the Nazis, they were still fundamental to the eventual extermination of the Jewish race.

During WWII over 6 million Jewish adults, children, and other groups were killed during the holocaust there were many different groups who tried to stop them like the French Resistance and the Red Orchestra. The holocaust was a dark time in history and is remembered terribly by the survivor's family.

The Jews really had no choice to resist because if they did resist than they would just be killed on the spot. The Nazis did a very good job at making it sound like the Jews were only getting taken away for work, not to be put into concentration camps. Once they got to the camps, they would be split up randomly and there was no set order on where people went. Many of the Jews would go along with what the Nazis were doing with them but then there was a small percentage that would resist the Nazis force, and that didn’t turn out very well.

“If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example” (Vollhardt). Universally, genocide is viewed in various ways by every party involved and has eight specific steps. In Germany, Adolf Hitler’s persistent lectures on the Jews and their role in World War One created tension in the government and in the people. The Holocaust can be looked at through eight itemized stages. Genocide can only be stopped with intervention on a worldwide scale. It disheartens me to know that mass murders have taken place throughout Europe because the Nazi Party declared themselves the higher being and therefore gave themselves the right to be the judge, jury, and executioner of the people less fortunate. Finally, The Holocaust, driven by the power and influence of Hitler and the Nazi Party, was based on the belief that Jews, inferior to the human race, should be eradicated from existence.

In late 1938, the Jews revolted and formed a riot which in turn ended up burning down about 1,440 synagogues, and killed about 91 individuals. Many Jews were sent to Dachau, Buchenwald, and other concentration camps. Once WW2 started, many Jews were shipped to ghettos, which were walled sections in which many Jews were crammed into, and were usually overcrowded and unsanitary. During this time, many Jews were provided with a scarcity of food, and medical services, which led many to go into hiding. Many non-Jewish friends helped the Jewish community hide, but with the law overlooking this, and ensuring that the ones helping the Jews were put into prison or put to death. Many Jews were unable to hide throughout the war, and were caught and sent to concentration camps. In not only the concentration camps, but the ghettos as well, there were many efforts to resist the Holocaust, however it was short lived as the Nazis immediately shut them down. Fortunately, a few were able to escape the treatment of the Germans, and joined movements determined to eliminate Nazi troops. While many Jews took a stand against the Nazis, and acted in defiance, these actions resulted in brutal murders of the Jews. If the treatment thus far wasn’t enough, once the Soviets, Americans, and the British began to close in on Germany, the Jews were forced out of the camps and ghettos and were made to march long distances. In turn, hundreds of thousands died of not only violence, but also starvation on these long marches. As the American troops liberated many of the concentration and extermination camps, what they witnessed showed the true nature of the camps

Armed resistance was a way for the Jewish people to stand up for themselves. An example of this type of resistance, is when the Jews attacked the Germans with homemade and smuggled weapons. As stated in the Jewish resistance article, “as German SS and police units entered the ghetto, members of the Jewish Fighting Organization (zydowska organizacja bojowa: ZOB) and other Jewish groups attacked German tanks with molotov cocktails, hand grenades,

Did you know that an estimated 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust? Not to mention, six million of those were Jews. The Nazi Party was a group that targeted Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other Slavs, and people with physical or mental disabilities. The Nazis were controlled by their leader, Adolf Hitler, which tried to kill all the Jews in Europe. They saw the Jews as a problem in Germany. They had even made death camps to try to get rid of them. The Nazi Party was an association controlled by their leader, Adolf Hitler, that was trying to complete a certain goal.

Thousands of Jews were saved because of the people that helped hide them from the Nazis and also helped fight back against the Nazis. Most Jews survived the holocaust by hiding in places such as houses, attics, cellars, closets, and anywhere else they could find to hide. Jews that fought against the Nazis were called Jewish resistance fighters. These Jews managed to help save thousands of other Jews from death from the Germans. Jews fought back in many different ways, including Spiritual ,and physical resistance. Jews fought back spiritually by refusing to lose hope and faith in the concentration camps even when their situation was very bleak. The holocaust would have been much worse for the Jews if weren't for

The Einsatzgruppen carried out operations ranging from a few people to activities which lasted over two or more days, for example the slaughter at Babi Yar and the Rumbula bloodbath. There are estimations that between 1941 and 1945 the Einsatzgruppen and other groups like Wehrmacht killed more than two million people, including 1.3 million Jews. The total number of Jews murdered during the Holocaust is approximately 5.5 to six million people.

The Nazis were not the only people committing acts of genocide against the Jewish people. Ordinary German citizens were manipulated into supporting the crimes committed against the Jewish people with propaganda. These citizens did not have a lot of options, so they either actively participated, supported from the sidelines, resisted the Nazi Party silently, or risked their lives to help the Jewish people in