Resistance: They Fought Back

Jewish Partisans in the Forest

Many groups of Jews escaped the ghettos to fight in the forests, denying these territories to Germans and preserving them for Jews to escape and hide. One of those was the Bielski Brigade, which saved 1200 Jewish lives.

Jewish Partisans in the Forest

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    Resistance: They Fought Back

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    People have a myth stuck in their heads that during the Holocaust, Jews went to their deaths “like sheep to the slaughter.” But this is where the real story begins. Jews did not go as sheep to the slaughter. They fought back.

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