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Jewish Uprisings in the Camps

Season 1 Episode 1 | 1m 46s

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.

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Women played an outsized role in the Jewish resistance, risking their lives daily.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans.
Kovner wrote a Manifesto, the first published call for Jews to fight back.
Few Jews had access to weapons in the Warsaw Ghetto, but they resisted nonetheless.
Children were among the most tragic victims in the Holocaust.
During the Holocaust Jews did not go to their deaths as sheep to the slaughter; they fought back.
During the Holocaust Jews did not go to their deaths as sheep to the slaughter; they fought back.
Many groups of Jews escaped the ghettos to fight in the forests, denying these areas to Germans.
During the Holocaust Jews did not go to their deaths as sheep to the slaughter; they fought back.