The Role Of Resistance In The Holocaust

Even with many failures, peaceful resistance is still more efficient than violent resistance. Violence resistance causes problems toward all party and usually does not end well. Peaceful resistance, on the other hand, has a high probability of being successful in its cause. Either way, people should use logical thinking and take actions that will truly make a positive impact toward

While the White Rose, Le Chambon and Zegota groups were all resisters, their goals were different and their reasons for resisting were very different. The main goal of the White Rose group was to crate a public uprising against the German government, to take a stand against the crimes they have been committing, and to show the world that the German people do not support the acts they have done. The Zegota groups’ purpose was to directly help those affected by the Nazi reign, by using moral obligation and political finances to help house and assist hiding Jews. The Le Chambon resistance incorporated a morally charged village who’s own persecution lead them to protecting the refugee Jews and citizens. While each group had different methods, and reasons for resisting, each of these groups fought against a government that they knew was wrong and took a stand against

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.

The Jews uprised in ghettos and camps with guns and explosives that were stolen or smuggled to them. “Jews seized what weapons the could find - picks, axes, and some firearms stolen from the camp armory - set fire to the camp. About 200 managed to escape. (Jewish Uprising). This shows armed resistance because the Jews revolted against the Germans with weapons they smuggled or stolen from the armory. The Jews were so desperate for freedom and hope that they risked their own lives to steal and smuggle weapons and revolt against the Nazis with open fire. They still had many more ways that they resisted against the Germans.

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.

“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.

Specifically addressing the use of peaceful resistance to laws, I believe that we, as a free society, need to permit peaceful resistance because of the specific issues the public addresses as unjust, unfair, or in violation of their rights demonstrated by this

The Judenrat led the resistance by assisting the rebels to escape from the ghettos. As a result to these resistances Nazi officers would just send attack dogs or perform search parties and eventually led to death.

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.

equal). The way the nonviolent strategy worked and how they used the strategy is by not giving

Resistances were formed by many such as forces like the Armee Juive, Another armed force that went along these lines were The Bielski Brothers Partisans, and unarmed forces were also developed during this time, such as Hans and Sophie Scholls leaflet campaign. With seeing the types of resistances that took place throughout the years of WWII, one question is left somewhat unanswered; if something like this were to occur in present times would the people of today fight for what's right or stand to the sides and watch in complete silence

During World War II, many chose to stand against the Nazi’s either passively or actively due to tyranny and oppression. Despite the many who chose to act out against them, actively using warfare tactics, the remainder of citizens opted for a more subtle, passive type of resistance. In “The Diary of Anne Frank,” and “Resistance During the Holocaust,” the main people passively resisted. People can best respond to conflict by passively resisting because of human worth, survival, and to preserve a culture. Citizens should passively resist because they value their own human worth.

This war was a killing of many Jews that took place in Europe. Known as the Holocaust this was called a genocide that exterminated the Jews. The timeline of the Holocaust was during World War II. The Nazi people had a mission set in place, that was to eliminate all the Jews.With the large number of Jews, there was about 11 million, the Nazis knew that this would be a process to kill them all. The Nazis has to find a way to get the Jews under their control to help with the process of eliminating them. The Nazis decided to strip all Jews of their rights and possessions. This caused the Jews to lose control over what they could and couldn't do in their life.They had no control over anything including where they went, this was them now losing the

Passive resistance, in its most basic terms, is the use of nonviolence as a way to invoke peace. Therefore, a passive resister’s number one rule is to practice nonviolence. Nonviolence is the use of intelligence and the human instinct of love to morally counteract aggression. Gandhi repeatedly expresses