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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Season 1 Episode 1 | 5m 02s

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans, though far from the only one. Some type of armed resistance was found in most ghettos, and, as was the case in Warsaw, many people participated.

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Women played an outsized role in the Jewish resistance, risking their lives daily.
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.
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.