Resistance: They Fought Back

Resistance in the Ghettos

In the Warsaw Ghetto, as in the more than 1200 ghettos into which the Germans forced the Jewish population during World War II, few Jews had access to weapons. But they resisted nonetheless, in ways that helped defeat the Nazis.

Resistance in the Ghettos

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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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