Examples Of Active Resistance During The Holocaust

Jews have perished because of their beliefs since the beginning of time but never have so many Jews been persecuted worldwide as they were in World War II. Anne Frank’s diary reaches a place within all of our hearts because it reminds us how easily the innocents can suffer. Sometimes we may choose to close our eyes or look the other way when unjustifiable things happen in our society and Anne’s tale reminds us that ignorance, in part, claimed her life. Sadly, her story is but one of many of those who died in the Holocaust and as with other Jews, her fate was determined by the country she lived in, her sex and her age.

In December 1939, as the German-occupied Poland was being torn up by the events of the Holocaust, Schindler took his first steps in becoming a Holocaust hero. “If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car,” he said later of his wartime actions, “wouldn't you help him?”(“Oskar Schindler,” Jewish Virtual Library).

One of the first things to understand when considering what made those rescuers choose to help Jews during the Holocaust is the punishments that they might face if they were caught by Nazis or Nazi-sympathizers. The harshest of these punishments was death. According to a case study based on the experiences of many rescuers, any consequences that one might

Over six million people died in the Holocaust. Family, friends, and other people with the same ethnicity that they didn't even know were killed left and right. From the crematory to getting hung. Was it best for them to help each other or was it to protect themselves and not care about anyone else? (Prompt 5)

Throughout the Holocaust, Jews organized resistance movements in ghettos, concentration, and extermination camps. Although they had virtually no weapons and faced one of the largest arsenals in the world, the Jewish people fought for their honor and freedom. Without any hope victory and in the face of death, resistance fighters found the courage to take on evil in its purest form. Their efforts must not go in vein; to them we must accord our respect. This is a brief testimony of their fight against the Nazi regime.

Non-violent resistance began to evolve as the Jews were transported to the concentration camps. Upon their initial arrival in the concentration camps, inmates attempted to aid each other in various ways, such as by giving those that were extremely malnourished extra food or attempting to lessen the workload on those that were weaker by taking their place; these acts, although not aimed directly against the SS, were simply keeping one another alive. These acts can be considered under Bauer’s definition of resistance in that the groups’ motives in sustaining themselves as a whole was in direct opposition to the central idea of the SS to break down and destroy the Jewish population. These acts also helped lead to the later active, armed resistance in that they helped to keep inmates alive and maintain their strength, as well as providing them with a will to resist.

Summary: This article was an introduction to the Holocaust. The German Nazi’s thought that the Jews were a community. Not only the Jews were targeted, anyone with a racial inferiority was targeted. For example, although the Jews were the main threat the gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses, and homosexuals and the disabled were also targeted. The Holocaust was a way to decrease the Jewish population; the final solution was to murder the Jews of Europe or anyone that was a threat to their German culture. Many died of incarceration and maltreatment. During the war they created ghettos, forced-labor camps between 1941 and 1944 the Nazi German Authorities would deport the Jews to extermination camps where they were murdered in gassing facilities. May 7, 1945 the German armed forces surrendered to the allies.

Firstly, the Jews in Europe organized a Jewish military league to resist the Nazi brutality. In Vilna, the first organized Jewish armed resistance arose from the youth movements. After the invasion of the Soviet Union is 1941, two-thirds of the Jewish population of Vilna were deported by the Nazis (“Jewish Combat Organization.”). Those who survived warned the other Jews of the ordeal awaiting them, which paved the way for the “First Manifesto”. This document called out for Jewish resistance and was written by Abba Kovner, a future leader of the ghetto fighters in Vilna. The manifesto was directed at the Jews of Vilna and the youth movements, and explained the fate of the ghetto deportees (that they were all killed), Hitler’s plot to “destroy all the Jews of Europe”, and called for Jewish resistance. This manifesto was significant, as it was the first call for the Jews to arm themselves and resist the Nazis. Not soon after,

“Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.” The thought expressed by actor Stephen Moyer portrays that conflict brings out a reaction from people, but they may not always be the same reaction. Being victims of the Holocaust Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank have different responses with some similarities. Both characters have a very similar response to write about the (hardships) they faced or were facing. Although Wiesel and Frank share the will to write about the (hardships), key differences developed throughout there (hardship). Wiesel lost faith in God, and as time lapsed Wiesel’s viewpoint on the future grew negative. On the other hand, Anne Frank stayed Optimistic about the future and found hope and passion through Peter.

This statement depicts a glimpse of what the Jewish people had to endure during the holocaust. The holocaust was an extreme form of massacre. It is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The duration of the holocaust was from January 30th, 1933 to May 8th, 1945. The holocaust began in the year of 1933 when the Nazi party came to power, the leader Adolf Hitler believed that the Jewish people belonged to a 'low' and 'evil' race, and they were affecting the lives of the Germans pessimistically. Hitler's motto was to punish, alienate, and torture anyone who differed from him, with religion being a main factor. The Nazi’s blamed the Jews for all the social and economic problems

Whenever you helped a Jew you were shamed throughout your entire town. (Document B) The way they did this was by whoever committed the crime was walked down the road along with the people they helped to execution site. (Document B) This was mainly done to show non-Jewish Poles the punishment of helping a Jew. This was also done to strike fear in them. The Germans wanted the Poles of fear them for they wouldn't go against them. These moment were often put in newspaper and put on the radio to scare the Poles. (Document B) But besides the people who were caught and killed there was people who successfully helped Jews live though the war and lived

During the Holocaust, German citizens residing near concentration camps were fully aware of the atrocities being committed so close to their homes. Though they hopefully realized that the mass slaughter of innocent Jews was horrific and inhumane, no one stood up for the Jews’ violated human rights or made an effort to save Jewish lives. King Jr. writes that if he had “lived in Germany at the time, [he] would have aided and comforted [his] Jewish brothers” (King Jr. 1350). By not siding against the Nazis, German citizens essentially showed that they supported the Final Solution. Had they taken direct action, even by simply petitioning to the government or by voicing their disagreement, countless Jewish lives could have been

The Rescuer: Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz As you think about the Nazis, what comes up to your mind first? Cruelty, inhumanity, Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust... Surely, the notorious Nazis were famous for their persecutions of Jews: They abused, tortured, dehumanized millions of Jews and eventually murdered them in gas chamber or crematorium. However, not all of the members of Nazis party were insensitive and unscrupulous, some of them stood up for the Jews and helped them to escape from genocide, though they knew they would receive the same treatment as Jews if they get caught.

Resistance in the holocaust During the Holocaust while the Jews were being beaten and killed, the rest of the world was silent, so the Jews decided to take matters into their own hands by resisting. Whoever resisted in the Holocaust was considered someone with dignity. The Jews found resisting as a last resort and they did not want to go down without a fight. Imagine yourself being a Jew during the Holocaust. Would you have resisted?

In times of oppression, resistance proves itself to be a multifaceted idea. To some, bloodshed is the best form of resistance. In World War Two many Jewish people chose to bear arms to fight their way from the gas chambers and use violence to grasp the freedom taken away from them. However, others resisted passively by creating hope for themselves in spite of the challenges they faced. The texts, The Diary of Anne Frank, Violins of Hope, and Resistance During the Holocaust, provide multiple examples of passive resistance.