Jewish Resistance

Jews started trying to fight back in 1943 when they heard rumors saying that the Germans were goignt o deport all the Jews. Jewish groups attacked German tanks with Molotov cocktails, hand grenades, and a handful of small arms. The Germans were able to stop the war within days but it took about a month to deport all the Jews.Thousands of Jews resisted by escaping from the ghettos into forests. Jewish prisoners rose against their guards at three killing centers in 1943 and prisoners with stolen weapons attacked the staff. Jews in the ghetto camps responded to the Nazi's with spiritual resistance such as creating Jewish cultural institutions, continuing to observe religious holidays and rituals, providing clandestine education, publishing underground newspapers, and collecting and hiding documentation.




Shocking Facts:
- Nearly 250 Jews died during the fighting.
- 200 more Jews died, the SS identified five women, four of them Jewish, who had been involved in supplying the members of the Sonderkommando with explosives to blow up a crematorium.