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Jewish Resistance uprising revolt

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Organized armed resistance was the most forceful form of Jewish opposition to Nazi policies
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Jewish civilians offered armed resistance in over 100 ghettos in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union
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April-May 1943, Jews in the Warsaw ghetto rose in armed revolt
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Jewish Fighting Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB)
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Molotov cocktails, hand grenades, and a handful of small arms
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During the same year, ghetto inhabitants rose against the Germans in Vilna (Vilnius), Bialystok, and a number of other ghettos
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Jewish prisoners rose against their guards at three killing centers
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Thousands of young Jews resisted by escaping from the ghettos into the forests.
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There they joined Soviet partisan units or formed separate partisan units to harass the German occupiers.
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At Treblinka in August 1943 and Sobibor in October 1943, prisoners armed with stolen weapons attacked the SS staff and the Trawniki-trained auxiliary guards
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Jewish Special Detachment (Sonderkommando)
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the SS identified five women, four of them Jewish, who had been involved in supplying the members of the Sonderkommando with explosives to blow up a crematorium. All five women were killed.
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Armée Juive (Jewish Army)
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which operated in the south of France
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Many Jews fought as members of national resistance movements in Belgium, France, Italy, Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Slovakia.
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Thomas Kittross on 08 Feb 10

An article overviewing Jewish resistance

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">An article overviewing Jewish resistance</div>

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