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Thomas Kittross

Jewish Resistance - 2 views

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Jewish Resistance uprising revolt

shared by Thomas Kittross on 08 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Organized armed resistance was the most forceful form of Jewish opposition to Nazi policies
  • Jewish civilians offered armed resistance in over 100 ghettos in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union
  • April-May 1943, Jews in the Warsaw ghetto rose in armed revolt
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  • Jewish Fighting Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB)
  • Molotov cocktails, hand grenades, and a handful of small arms
  • During the same year, ghetto inhabitants rose against the Germans in Vilna (Vilnius), Bialystok, and a number of other ghettos
  • Jewish prisoners rose against their guards at three killing centers
  • Thousands of young Jews resisted by escaping from the ghettos into the forests.
  • There they joined Soviet partisan units or formed separate partisan units to harass the German occupiers.
  • 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
  • Jewish Special Detachment (Sonderkommando)
  • 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.
  • Armée Juive (Jewish Army)
  • which operated in the south of France
  • Many Jews fought as members of national resistance movements in Belgium, France, Italy, Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Slovakia.
  • Thomas Kittross on 08 Feb 10
     
    An article overviewing Jewish resistance
Michael Eppolito

HOLOCAUST HEROICS: GHETTO FIGHTERS AND PARTISANS IN ISRAELI SOCIETY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY1... - 2 views

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Israel survivors identitiy

shared by Michael Eppolito on 15 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Ghetto revolts and other armed Jewish resistance during the Holocaust are among the formative elements of Israeli Holocaust memory and Israeli national identity. This essay illustrates how Holocaust Ex-fighters have worked to make the story of armed Jewish resistance a part of Israel's national narrative.
  • set out to commemorate the armed Jewish resistance and the central role they played in making the resistance into an important element of Israeli identity.
  • The ability to fight and resist its attackers or oppressors was judged by many to be an indication of a society's moral fiber.
Michael Eppolito

Animated Map - 0 views

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map Warsaw Ghetto

shared by Michael Eppolito on 15 May 13 - Cached
  • Warsaw — Animated Map
Michael Eppolito

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust, Timeline - 1 views

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holocaust timeline Nazi Camps Ghettos resistance

shared by Michael Eppolito on 01 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Michael Eppolito on 01 Jan 10
     
    This site provides a comprehensive timeline of the Holocaust. It provides multiple links, photos, definitions, audio and video. This is an essential resouce.
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