Resistance: They Fought Back

Questioning the “sheep to the slaughter” myth…

Children were among the most tragic victims in the Holocaust. Professor Michael Berenbaum of American Jewish University speaks zof Janusz Korczak, a physician who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and died with the children when they were transported to Treblinka. Do we say he went to his death as sheep to the slaughter?

Questioning the “sheep to the slaughter” myth…

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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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