Reasons To Fight Back During The Holocaust

Although the jews were in tough circumstances, they had many opportunities to fight back my is question is why didn’t they? Contrary to my belief there was some resistance among the jews although it was minimal. The jews fought back by avoiding capture by nazies. Some fought back in the ghettos or camps bust most submitted to the cruelty and suffering of the nazis.

Around this time the Nazis came up with the term “The Final Solution” This meant to have all Jewish people segregated and put into ghettos, limiting their freedom and lives. People were evicted from their properties and also from their business just because they were Jews, and they were put in the “ghettos”. Life in the ghettos was unbearable and overcrowding. Specially when they have ten families living in one small apartment. They were also limited on the food that they could buy, since Nazis did not let them buy enough food for them and their family they were only aloud to buy small amounts, they were trying to make the Jewish starve. Jewish kids also sneak out through small openings in the ghetto walls to smuggle food, but if they got caught they were going to be severely punished. The housing inside ghettos were unsanitary specially when plumping broke down, and human waste was thrown in the streets along with garbage and caused contagious diseases that spread rapidly in the ghettos. Many people died every day in the ghettos because of the terrible conditions they lived and some

Firstly, the Jews in Europe organized a Jewish military league to resist the Nazi brutality. In Vilna, the first organized Jewish armed resistance arose from the youth movements. After the invasion of the Soviet Union is 1941, two-thirds of the Jewish population of Vilna were deported by the Nazis (“Jewish Combat Organization.”). Those who survived warned the other Jews of the ordeal awaiting them, which paved the way for the “First Manifesto”. This document called out for Jewish resistance and was written by Abba Kovner, a future leader of the ghetto fighters in Vilna. The manifesto was directed at the Jews of Vilna and the youth movements, and explained the fate of the ghetto deportees (that they were all killed), Hitler’s plot to “destroy all the Jews of Europe”, and called for Jewish resistance. This manifesto was significant, as it was the first call for the Jews to arm themselves and resist the Nazis. Not soon after,

“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.

The underground used mainly armed resistance to hurt the Germans. Armed resistance was fighting however they could and not letting others who couldn’t be passive "The fighters encouraged the ghetto population to fight back however they could" (Vashem). They mainly fought to keep their culture and to try every day to live longer and not go down without a fight.

During World War II and the Holocaust, many people wondered why Jewish people did not fight back against the Nazi’s. But what many people do not know is that about 30,000 Jewish people resisted and fought back against the Nazi command (Resistance). The Holocaust started in 1939 and ended in 1945. The Jews were forced into ghettos and were ostracized from the world by a wall or barbed wire fence. There were also concentration or death camps where after the war ended, almost no Jews survived. During the Holocaust, the Jewish people engaged in both armed and unarmed resistance in order to preserve their faith, morale, and humanity.

The resistance inside the Warsaw ghetto caused casualties on the German forces that were well armed and equipped SS and police units. Continuing to resist being taken as individuals and in small groups for four weeks before their resistance was stopped on May 16th.

If there is any matter of defining Jewish resistance during the Holocaust it is with a quote by Maya Angelou, “You may tread me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll rise”. Though these words are not from a Jew, it is still implied to their resistance. On the year of 1933, during World War II, Nazis forced Jews to relocate themselves into the ghettos. While in the ghettos, Nazis made every effort to dehumanize Jews in forms of extermination, liquidations, shootings, and many unexplained cruelties. Once the community had enough they reacted with resistance. In order to maintain their humanity, Jews used armed and unarmed resistance.

* Jewish people were getting tired of being oppressed, and decided to rebel against the germans because it was rumored that the germans were going to deport jewish people from the Warsaw ghetto.

    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.

One way that the Jewish people resisted was through unarmed resistance. This type of resistance was acted out in various ways such as them still practicing their religion despite the Nazis giving them strict reasons not to do so.”the Germans forbade religious services in most ghettos, so many Jews prayed and held ceremonies in secret-in cellars, attics, and back rooms- as others stood guard”(“Unarmed Resistance”) This fits into unarmed resistance because they are resisting the authority of the germans by practicing their religion in secrecy. This

There was little access to weapons and absolutely no chance of moving freely and a majority of the population were uninterested in resisting the Nazi's as they no longer believed in hope. Despite the odds many Jews practiced some resistance either cultural, spiritual, armed or active. Resistance activities were very secretive and held in underground organizations, they included literary evenings, Jewish artists, concerts, directors, poets, and secret libraries. The Jews struggled to keep hope and attempted to keep themselves normal and not show their emotion to the Nazi's. They helped others by organizing religious worships, by fasting on religious holidays despite them being starving. The Jewish resistance remained non-violent until 1943 when armed and active resistance began. Armed active resistance in the ghettos were more violent and open. The resistances were very organized and often spontaneous. Jewish youth were deeply involved in planning hiding and escapes where they learned that they could escape the ghettos by running into forests. The Jews tried to smuggle arms into the ghetto to train fighters and start a plan of a battle alert if there was surprise attack by the Germans. The Jewish people were scared and hopeless and some did not want to fight back the Nazi's, they kept their heads down and voices low so that they could go under the radar and stay alive for as long as possible. There were also individuals called Partisans (a strong supporter of a cause) that risked their lives in trying to help and organize secret resistance to Nazi control. They attacked German railroads, bridges and military camps. They also tried to assassinate Nazi collaborators. There were a few German's who allowed Jewish resistance and some helped to save the Jewish people, three examples of these people are Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg and Chinua

Good afternoon Mr Waugh and fellow classmate, today i will be talking about the way the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto happened. The Warsaw ghetto was An run down area with walls built around it to keep the Jewish from the Aryans, which in Hitlers eyes were the 'perfect humans. But why did the Nazi Germans hated the Jewish? And how did the Jewish people resist in the warsaw ghetto if they have nothing to fight back with and with the Germans having all the firearms? well, in the next slide i will tell you.

In this article it talks about the outbreaks in the ghettos. It explains what they used and how they used it to ambush the Nazi’s. The article also talks about how they ambushed to Jews in the camps and the ghettos. Many of the Jews in the outbreak knew they wouldn’t be able to fight with all their strength but they still did it. They fought back for Jewish revenge and honor.

Their main goals were to organize uprisings, break out of the ghettos, and join partisan units in the fight against the Germans.The Jews knew that uprisings would not stop the Germans and that only a handful of fighters would succeed in escaping to join the partisans. Still, some Jews made the decision to resist. Weapons were smuggled into ghettos. Inhabitants in the ghettos of Vilna, Mir, Lachva , Kremenets, Częstochowa, Nesvizh, Sosnowiec, and Tarnow, among others, resisted with force when the Germans began to deport ghetto populations. In Bialystok, the underground staged an uprising just before the final destruction of the ghetto in September 1943. Most of the ghetto fighters, primarily young men and women, died during the fighting.The Warsaw ghetto uprising in the spring of 1943 was the largest single revolt by Jews. Hundreds of Jews fought the Germans and their auxiliaries in the streets of the ghetto. Thousands of Jews refused to obey German orders to report to an assembly point for deportation. In the end the Nazis burned the ghetto to the ground to force the Jews out. Although they knew defeat was certain, Jews in the ghetto fought desperately and