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Resistance in the Ghettos

Season 1 Episode 1 | 3m 41s

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.

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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.
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.
Even in Nazi death camps, Jews rebelled.
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.