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Resistance of the Jews

Posted on January 10, 2008
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Why did the Jewish people just go along with the Germans to be killed?  Well the truth of the matter is that some of the Jewish people did resist.  They fought with the Nazis and tried to protect their families, but a handful of poorly armed Jewish people were nothing to the German war machine.

We are told of many heroic attempts by the Jewish people to escape from the work camps.  One woman in particular who, when told to disrobe, wiped off her garment hitting and S.S.  officer in the eyes.  She then snatched his revolver and shot him and another S.S.  officer.  Many more of these heroic stories were poping up all over, but I doubt any lived to tell the stories themselves.

The Jewish people in the ghettos also rebelled in three of the five ghettos mentioned.  The ghettos did well to do any damage to the Germans as they were armed with just handguns, machine guns, and Molotov Cocktails.  The Jewish people killed a few Nazis and managed to hold out, for a little while at least.  In the fight a handful of Jewish people managed to escape to the woods and to secret rebellious groups.

The Germans had a few major tools in these conflicts.  They could shell the Jewish people from a distance using mortars to demolish buildings.  The Nazis also would burn the homes of the Jewish people forcing them into the open.  Also, the Jewish people had no way of getting food from the outside, because the Germans could cut off the supply lines, which they controlled anyway.

In the prison camps few rebellions took place due to the power of the Nazis and also to the weakened state of the Jewish people, but in on one occasion in 1943 a group of Jewish people teamed up against their German oppressors and fought back.  They were successful in killing the S.S.  guards, and they destroyed the compound.  By the end of the war 40 of the 600 who escaped remained alive. holocaust timeline

I know I’d rather die fighting than lying down.  To have loved and lost is better than to have never loved at all.  In the same respect, to have fought and died is better than to have never fought at all.

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