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Marissa Moralez
Mr. Hawkins
Modern World History- P Period 2
6 April, 2016
Jewish Resistance During World War Two (1936-1945)
During World War Two when Hitler was in power the extermination of all Jews was put
to action during what is now known as the Holocaust. All Jewish people were taken from their
homes and moved to concentration camps and ghettos where they were separated from their
families and killed. During this time millions of Jews were captured and few resisted the Nazi
ways for various reasons.
The Nazi rule over Germany was very powerful and intimidating. The few people and
groups that did resist Nazi power were often generally unsuccessful. However, The righteous
Jews and non Jews that did choose to stand up against Nazi power had the personal satisfaction
of defending whats right.
There have been many documented times where individuals (Jews and non-Jews) have
come together to perform honorable acts of bravery and defiance of the cruelty happening to the
Jews. Jewish resistance under the Nazi rule took various forms against German
occupation regimes in Europe by Jews during World War II (Evidence Page 1). The
different forms of resistance included cultural, spiritual, armed, active, or mental defiance
(meaning that they dont let the Nazis dehumanize them). Any form of Jewish resistance during
the time of the Holocaust required courage. Other examples of resistance included creating
schools; printing and distributing underground newspapers; maintaining religious
customs; drawing, painting, or secretly Children Celebrating Purim in the Ghetto, Lodz,

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Poland (Evidence Piece #2). Although resistance didnt cause much impact on what the Nazis
were doing, the Jews and non-Jews were satisfied in knowing that they were defying the bad
things that were going on.
In the concentration defying the Nazi party by not letting the Nazis dehumanize them was
popular amongst the captured Jews. In the camps, acts of cultural and spiritual resistance
were more difficult but still occurred. Jews struggled for humanity, for normalcy, and for
life by purposefully attempting to keep themselves clean, not showing emotion to their
captures, helping others, organizing religious worship or by fasting on religious holidays
despite the fact that they were starving (Evidence Piece #2).
Some attacks on the Nazis have been pretty successful considering the circumstances the
Jews faced. It was extremely difficult to obtain weapons and plan attacks with the intensive
watch in ghettos and concentration camps. Jews formed armed resistance groups only after
they realized that there was no possible escape from the Nazis aim of total annihilation.
This realization came no earlier than late 1941. One of the first groups was the Fareynikte
Partizaner Organizatsie (United Partisan Organization; FPO) of the Vina ghetto,
established in January 1942 (Evidence Piece #3).
The resistance of Jews is an important part of learning about the Holocaust because It
shows that a lot of the Jews did not go down without a fight. Learning about the Holocaust is an
atrocious sight but learning about the defiance some of the Jews had shines light on their courage
and bravery during this horrible time.

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