Resistance: They Fought Back

Jewish Uprisings in the Camps

Even in Nazi death camps, Jews rebelled. None of these uprisings succeeded, but many saved lives either by destroying the ovens or because Germans shut down the camps for fear that word of the uprisings would spread.

Jewish Uprisings in the Camps

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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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