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Jewish resistance
Members of theUnited Partisan Organization,active in theVilna Ghettoduring World War II
TheWarsaw Ghetto Uprisinglaunched as the final act of defiance againstthe Holocaust in occupied Poland
Jewish resistance under the Nazi rule
Organizations
Uprisings

Jewish resistance under Nazi ruletook various forms of organizedundergroundactivitiesconducted againstGerman occupation regimes in EuropebyJewsduringWorld War II.According to historianYehuda Bauer,Jewish resistance was defined as actions that were taken against all laws and actions acted by Germans.[1]The term is particularly connected withthe Holocaustand includes a multitude of different social responses by those oppressed, as well as bothpassiveand armed resistance conducted by Jews themselves.

Due to military strength ofNazi Germanyandits allies,as well as the administrative system of ghettoization and the hostility of various sections of the civilian population, few Jews were able to effectively resist theFinal Solutionmilitarily. Nevertheless, there are many cases of attempts at resistance in one form or another including over a hundred armed Jewish uprisings.[2]Historiographically,the study of Jewish resistance to German rule is considered an important aspect of the study of the Holocaust.

Concepts and definitions[edit]

The historianJulian Jacksonargued that there were three forms of Jewish resistance in the course of his study of theGerman occupation of France:"first, individual French Jews in the general Resistance; secondly, specifically Jewish organizations in the general Resistance; thirdly, Resistance organizations (not necessarily comprising Jews alone) with specifically Jewish objectives." In his bookThe Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy,Martin Gilbertdefines Jewish resistance more widely. He recounts widespread individual resistance in many forms. Jews fought oppressors with the weapons they could find. But Gilbert emphasizes that many Jews resisted passively; by enduring suffering and even death with dignity, they refused to satisfy German attackers' desire to see them despair. Gilbert writes, "Simply to survive was a victory of the human spirit."

Nechama Tec argues that any of the complex and varying acts of defiance against the restrictive and demoralizing conditions forced upon the Jews of Europe should be considered spiritual resistance.[3]Tec asserts that actions such as ghetto leaders scavenging resources for food and medicine, or the employment and preservation of Jewish art and artists in Germany through the creation of Jewish Cultural Association serve as a passive means of resisting the Nazi aim to destroy the identity and culture of Judaism.[3]Richard Middleton-Kaplan identifies documented acts of spiritual resistance in concentration camps, such as inmates saying prayers for Shabbat and fallen loved ones and making efforts to care for themselves and others.[4]

This view is supported byYehuda Bauer,who wrote that resistance to the Nazis comprised not only physical opposition, but any activity that gave the Jewish people dignity and humanity despite the humiliating and inhumane conditions. The scholarly argument surrounding passive and spiritual resistance stems from historian Yehuda Bauer's concept of "amidah", the Hebrew word meaning "to stand up against", which asserts any act of resisting the destruction of Jewish life is an act of defiance.[3]Further historical research and arguments have used "Amidah" to characterize religious observation, the of Jewish resistance to the destruction of one's culture, one's individualism, and one's will to live.

Bauer disputes the popular view that most Jews went to their deaths passively— "like sheep to the slaughter".He argues that, given the conditions in which the Jews ofEastern Europehad to live under and endure, what is surprising is not how little resistance there was, but rather how much resistance was present.[citation needed]Middleton-Kaplan calls upon the traditional connotation of "sheep to the slaughter" in both Judaism in Christianity to argue the positive notion in Jewish scripture of facing a looming, existential threat with faith and bravery, succumbing to one's fate without fear.[4]InThe Myth of Jewish Passivity,Middleton-Kaplan mentions Jewish resistance leader Abba Kovner, famed for his role in the Vilna ghetto uprising, quoted as early as 1941 using the "sheep to the slaughter" phrase as a call to action, arguing Kovner employed the phrase's original connotation as a call to action towards an unmoving or absent God.[5]Historians such as Patrick Henry have found that the "sheep to the slaughter" myth of Jewish passivity is partly tied to the apparent lack of discussion regarding forms of Jewish resistance outside armed revolt.[5]

Types of resistance[edit]

Ghettos across German-occupied Poland[edit]

In 1940, theWarsaw ghettowas cut off from its access to Polish underground newspapers, and the only newspaper allowed to be imported into the confines of the ghetto was theGeneral Governmentpropaganda organGazeta Żydowska.As a result, from roughly May 1940 to October 1941, the Jews of the ghetto published their own underground newspapers, offering hopeful news about the war and prospects for the future. The most prominent of these were published by the Jewish Socialist party and the Zionist Labor Movement. These two groups formed an alliance but they had no arms. These papers lamented the carnage of war, but for the most part did not encourage armed resistance.[6]

Jews mainly used unarmed resistance in Eastern Europe; for instance, young Jews smuggled food or secretly took people into the forests inSobibórandTreblinkadeath camps, whereas in Western Europe, they used armed resistance.[7]Between April and May 1943, Jewish men and women of the Warsaw Ghetto took up arms andrebelled against the Nazisafter it became clear that the Germans were deporting remaining Ghetto inhabitants to theTreblinka extermination camp.Warsaw Jews of theJewish Combat Organizationand theJewish Military Unionfought the Germans with a handful of small arms andMolotov cocktails,asPolish resistanceattacked from the outside in support. After fierce fighting, vastly superior German forces pacified the Warsaw Ghetto and either murdered or deported all of the remaining inhabitants to the Nazi killing centers.[8]The Germans claimed that they lost 18 dead and 85 wounded, though this figure has been disputed, with resistance leaderMarek Edelmanestimating 300 German casualties. Some 13,000 Jews were killed, and 56,885 were deported to concentration camps. There are two main reasons why Jews failed to resist when they were leaving the ghettos: Nazis' powerful army and also, it was difficult for Jews to get armed resistance because they needed others' support and because they lacked the ability to get arms when they were in ghettos.[citation needed]

There were many other major and minor ghetto uprisings, however most were not successful. Some of the ghetto uprisings include theBiałystok Ghetto Uprisingand theCzęstochowa Ghetto Uprising.Uprisings took place in five major cities and 45 provincial towns.[9]

Concentration camps[edit]

Smoke rising fromTreblinka extermination campduring the prisoner uprising of August 1943

There were major resistance efforts in three of the extermination camps.

  • In August 1943, an uprising took place at theTreblinka extermination camp.The participants obtained guns and grenades after two young men used forged keys and snuck into the armory unit. The weapons were then distributed around the camp in garbage bins. However, during the distribution of arms, a Nazi guard stopped a prisoner and found contraband money on him. Fearing that the prisoner would be tortured and give away the plan, the organizers decided to launch the revolt ahead of schedule without completing the distribution of weapons, and set off a single grenade—the agreed-upon signal for the uprising. The prisoners then attacked the Nazi guards with guns and grenades. Several German and Ukrainian guards were killed, a fuel tank was set on fire, barracks and warehouses were burned, military vehicles were disabled, and grenades were thrown at the SS headquarters. The guards replied with machine-gun fire, and 1,500 inmates were killed—but 70 inmates escaped to freedom. The guards chased those who had escaped on horseback and in cars, but some of those who escaped were armed, and returned the guards' fire. Gassing operations at the camp were interrupted for a month.[10]
  • In October 1943, an uprising took place atSobibór extermination camp,led by Polish-Jewish prisonerLeon Feldhendlerand Soviet-Jewish POWAlexander Pechersky.The inmates covertly killed 12 GermanSSofficers, including the deputy commander, and a number of Ukrainian guards. Although the plan was to kill all of SS members and walk out of the main gate of the camp, the guards discovered the killings and opened fire. The inmates then had to run for freedom under fire, with roughly 300 of the 600 inmates in the camp escaping alive. All but 50–70 of the inmates were killed in the surrounding minefields or recaptured and murdered by the Germans. However, the escape forced the Nazis to close the camp, saving countless lives.[11]
  • On October 7, 1944, the JewishSonderkommandos(inmates kept separate from the main camp and put to work in thegas chambersandcrematoria) atAuschwitzstaged an uprising.Female inmates had smuggled in explosives from a weapons factory, and Crematorium IV was partly destroyed by an explosion. At this stage they were joined by the Birkenau OneKommando,which also overpowered their guards and broke out of the compound. The inmates then attempted a mass escape, but were stopped by heavy fire. Three guards were killed in the uprising, including anOberkapowho was pushed alive into an oven. Almost all of the 250 escapees were killed. There were also international plans for a general uprising in Auschwitz, coordinated with anAlliedair raidand aPolish resistanceattack from the outside.

Uprisings also erupted in at least 18 forced labor camps.[9]

Partisan groups[edit]

There were a number of Jewish partisan groups operating in many countries, especially in places like Poland. Jews also joined existing partisan movements. The most notable Jewish partisan group is theBielski partisans,whom the movieDefianceportrays, and theParczew partisansin the forests nearLublin.Hundreds of Jews escaped the ghettoes and joined the Partisan resistance groups.[2]Some Jews liberated from theGęsiówkaconcentration camp participated in the 1944Warsaw Uprising.In France, up to 20% of theFrench Resistancewas Jewish despite Jews making up only about 1% of the French population, and there was a Jewish resistance unit, theArmée Juive.[12]About 10% ofSoviet partisanswere Jews.[13]Thousands of Jews also joined theYugoslav Partisans.One Yugoslav Partisan unit,Rab battalion,was composed of entirely of Jews liberated from theRab concentration camp.

Jewish resistance in German-occupied Europe by country[edit]

Belgium[edit]

Belgianresistance tothe treatment of Jewscrystallised between August–September 1942, following the passing of legislation regarding wearing yellow badges and the start of the deportations.[14]When deportations began, Jewish partisans destroyed records of Jews compiled by the AJB.[15]The first organization specifically devoted to hiding Jews, theComité de Défense des Juifs(CDJ-JVD), was formed in the summer of 1942.[14]The CDJ, aleft-wingorganization, may have saved up to 4,000 children and 10,000 adults by finding them safe hiding places.[16]It produced twoYiddish languageunderground newspapers,Unzer Wort( "Our Word", with aLabour-Zioniststance) andUnzer Kamf( "Our Fight", with aCommunistone).[17]The CDJ was only one of dozens of organised resistance groups that provided support to hidden Jews. Other groups and individual resistance members were responsible for finding hiding places and providing food and forged papers.[18]Many Jews in hiding went on to join organised resistance groups. Groups from left wing backgrounds, like theFront de l'Indépendance(FI-OF), were particularly popular with Belgian Jews. The Communist-inspiredPartisans Armés(PA) had a particularly large Jewish section in Brussels.[19]

The resistance was responsible for the assassination of Robert Holzinger, the head of the deportation program, in 1942.[20]Holzinger, an active collaborator, was an Austrian Jew selected by the Germans for the role.[20]The assassination led to a change in leadership of the AJB. Five Jewish leaders, including the head of the AJB, were arrested and interned in Breendonk, but were released after public outcry.[15]A sixth was deported directly to Auschwitz.[15]

The Belgian resistance was unusually well informed on the fate of the deported Jews. In August 1942 (two months after the start of the Belgian deportations), the underground newspaperDe Vrijschutterreported that "They [the deported Jews] are being killed in groups by gas, and others are killed by salvos of machinegun fire."[21]

In early 1943, theFront de l'IndépendancesentVictor Martin,an academic economist at theCatholic University of Louvain,to gather information on the fate of deported Belgian Jews using the cover of his research post at theUniversity of Cologne.[22]Martin visited Auschwitz and witnessed the crematoria. Arrested by the Germans, he escaped, and was able to report his findings to the CDJ in May 1943.[22]

France[edit]

Ariadna Scriabina,co-founder ofArmée Juive

Despite amounting to only 1% of the French population, Jews accounted for about 15–20% of theFrench Resistance.[23]Some of the Jewish resistance members were refugees from Germany, Poland and other central European states.[24]

Although the majority of the French and foreign Jews involved in theFrench Resistanceparticipated in the general Resistance movements, some Jews also set up their own armed resistance movement: theArmée Juive(Jewish Army), aZionistorganization, which at its height, numbered some 2,000 fighters. Operating throughout France, it smuggled hundreds of Jews toSpainandSwitzerland,launched attacks against occupying German forces, and targeted Nazi informants andGestapoagents. Armee Juive participated in the general French uprising of August 1944, fighting inParis,Lyon,andToulouse.[25]

Germany[edit]

Jewish resistance within Germany itself during the Nazi era took a variety of forms, from sabotage and disruptions to providing intelligence toAlliedforces, distributing anti-Nazi propaganda, as well as participating in attempts to assist Jewish emigration out of Nazi-controlled territories. It has been argued that, for Jews during the Holocaust, given the intent of the Nazi regime to exterminate Jews, survival itself constituted an act considered a form of resistance.[26]Jewish participation in theGerman resistancewas largely confined to the underground activities of left-wingZionistgroups such as Werkleute,Hashomer HatzairandHabonim,and theGerman Social Democrats,Communists,and independent left-wing groups such as the New Beginning. Much of the non-left wing and non-Jewish opposition to Hitler in Germany (i.e., conservative and religious forces), although often opposed to the Nazi plans for extermination of German and European Jewry, in many instances itself harbored anti-Jewish sentiments.[27]

A celebrated case involved the arrest and execution ofHelmut Hirsch,a Jewish architectural student originally fromStuttgart,in connection with a plot to bomb Nazi Party headquarters inNuremberg.Hirsch became involved in theBlack Front,a breakaway faction from the Nazi Party led byOtto Strasser.After being captured by theGestapoin December 1936, Hirsch confessed to planning to murderJulius Streicher,a leading Nazi official and editor of the virulently anti-SemiticDer Stürmernewspaper, on behalf of Strasser and the Black Front. Hirsch was sentenced to death on March 8, 1937, and on June 4 was beheaded with an axe.

Perhaps the most significant Jewish resistance group within Germany for which records survive was the Berlin-basedBaum Group(Baum-Gruppe), which was active from 1937 to 1942. Largely young Jewish women and men, the group disseminated anti-Nazi leaflets, and organized semi-public demonstrations. Its most notable action was the bombing of an anti-Soviet exhibit organized byJoseph Goebbelsin Berlin'sLustgarten.The action resulted in mass arrests, executions, and reprisals against German Jews. Because of the reprisals it provoked, the bombing led to debate within opposition circles similar to those that took place elsewhere where the Jewish resistance was active—taking action and risking murderousreprisalsvs. being non-confrontational with the hopes of maximizing survival.[28]

Netherlands[edit]

In theNetherlands,the only pre-war group that immediately startedresistance against the German occupationwas thecommunist party.During the first two war years, it was by far the biggest resistance organization, much bigger than all other organizations put together. A major act of resistance was the organisation of theFebruary strikein 1941, in protest against anti-Jewish measures. In this resistance, many Jews participated. About 1,000 Dutch Jews took part in resisting the Germans, and of those, 500 perished in doing so. In 1988, a monument to their memory was unveiled by the thenmayor of Amsterdam,Ed van Thijn.[29]

Among the first Jewish resisters was the German fugitive Ernst Cahn, owner of an ice cream parlor. Together with his partner, Kohn, he had anammoniagas cylinder installed in the parlor to stave off attacks from the militant arm of the fascistNSB,the so-called "Weerafdeling" ( "WA" ). One day in February 1941 the German police forced their entrance into the parlor, and were gassed. Later, Cahn was caught and on March 3, 1941, he became the first civilian to be executed by a Nazi firing squad in the Netherlands.[citation needed]

Benny Bluhm, a boxer, organized Jewish fighting parties consisting of members of his bo xing school to resist attacks. One of these brawls led to the death of a WA-member, H. Koot, and subsequently the Germans ordered the first Dutchrazzia(police raid) of Jews as a reprisal. That in turn led to theFebruaristaking,theFebruary Strike.Bluhm's group was the only Jewish group resisting the Germans in the Netherlands and the first active group of resistance fighters in the Netherlands. Bluhm survived the war, and strove for a monument for the Jewish resisters that came about two years after his death in 1986.

Numerous Jews participated in resisting the Germans. The Jewish director of the assembly center in the "Hollandsche Schouwburg", a former theatre,Walter Süskind,was instrumental in smuggling children out of his centre. He was aided by his assistant Jacques van de Kar and the director of the nearby crèche, Mrs Pimentel.[30]

Within the underground communist party, a militant group was formed: de Nederlandse Volksmilitie (NVM, Dutch Peoples Militia). The leader was Sally (Samuel) Dormits, who had military experience from guerrilla warfare in Brazil and participation in theSpanish Civil War.This organisation was formed inThe Haguebut became mainly located inRotterdam.It counted about 200 mainly Jewish participants. They made several bomb attacks on German troop trains and arson attacks on cinemas, which were forbidden for Jews. Dormits was caught after stealing a handbag off a woman in order to obtain an identification card for his Jewish girlfriend, who also participated in the resistance. Dormits committed suicide in the police station by shooting himself through the head. From a cash ticket of a shop the police found the hiding place of Dormits and discovered bombs, arson material, illegal papers, reports about resistance actions and a list of participants. TheGestapowas warned immediately and that day two hundred people were arrested, followed by many more connected people in Rotterdam, The Hague andAmsterdam.The Dutch police participated in torturing the Jewish communists. After a trial more than 20 were shot to death; most of the others died inconcentration campsor were gassed inAuschwitz.Only a few survived.

Jewish resistance in Allied militaries[edit]

Soldiers of theJewish Brigadebeing inspected by the brigade's commander in October 1944

Approximately 1.5 million Jews served in the regular Allied militaries during World War II, among them roughly 550,000 in theUnited States Armed Forces(including those who served in the Pacific theater) and 500,000 in theRed Army.About 100,000 served in the Polish Army during the German invasion and thousands served in theFree Polish Forcesincluding about 10,000 inAnders' Army.About 60,000 British Jews and 30,000 Jews fromMandatory Palestineserved in theBritish Armed Forcesduring the war. Another 17,000 Jews served in theCanadian Armed Forces.[31][32][33]

TheBritish Armytrained 37 Jewish volunteers fromMandate Palestineto parachute into Europe in an attempt to organize resistance. The most famous member of this group wasHannah Szenes.She was parachuted intoYugoslaviato assist in the rescue ofHungarian Jewsabout to be deported to theGermandeath campatAuschwitz.[34]Szenes was arrested at the Hungarian border, then imprisoned and tortured, but refused to reveal details of her mission. She was eventually tried andexecuted by firing squad.[34]She is regarded as a national heroine inIsrael.

The British government formed theJewish Brigade,an all-Jewish unit of the British Army for Jews from Palestine, in July 1944. It consisted of about 5,500 Jewish volunteers from Palestine led by British-Jewish officers, and was organized into three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, and supporting units. They were attached to theBritish Eighth ArmyinItalyfrom November 1944, taking part to theSpring 1945 offensive in Italy.After the end of the war in Europe the Brigade was moved toBelgiumand theNetherlandsin July 1945. As well as participating in combat operations against German forces, the brigade assisted and protected Holocaust survivors.[35][36]

TheSpecial Interrogation Groupwas a British Army commando unit comprisingGerman-speaking Jewish volunteers from Palestine. It carried out commando andsabotageraids behind Axis lines during theWestern Desert Campaign,and gathered military intelligence by stopping and questioning German transports while dressed as German military police. They also assisted other British forces. Following the disastrous failure ofOperation Agreement,a series of ground and amphibious operations carried out by British, Rhodesian and New Zealand forces on German and Italian-held Tobruk in September 1942, the survivors were transferred to theRoyal Pioneer Corps.

Notable Jewish resistance fighters[edit]

A Jewish partisan group of the brigade named afterValery Chkalov.[37]Belorussia, 1943

Aftermath[edit]

The Nokmim[edit]

In the aftermath of the war, Holocaust survivors led by former members of Jewish resistance groups banded together. Calling themselvesNokmim(Hebrewfor "avengers" ), they tracked down and executed former Nazis who took part in the Holocaust. They killed an unknown number of Nazis, and their efforts are believed to have continued into the 1950s. The Nazis were often kidnapped and killed by hanging or strangulation, others were killed by hit-and-run attacks, and a former high-rankingGestapoofficer died whenkerosenewas injected into his bloodstream while he was in hospital awaiting an operation. It is possible that some of the most successful Nokmim were veterans of theJewish Brigade,who had access to military intelligence, transport, and the right to freely travel across Europe.

Nokmim also travelled to places such asLatin America,Canada,andSpainto track down and kill Nazis who had settled there. In one instance, they are believed to have confrontedAleksander Laak,responsible for killing 8,500 Jews atJägala concentration camp,at his suburbanWinnipeghome, and after telling him that they intended to kill him, allowed him to commit suicide.

In 1946, the Nokmim carried out a mass poisoning attack against formerSSmembers imprisoned atStalag 13,lacing their bread rations with arsenic at the bakery which supplied it. Approximately 1,200 prisoners fell ill, but no deaths were reported. The U.S. Army mustered its medical resources to treat the poisoned prisoners. Nokmin responses ranged from viewing this mass assassination attempt as a failure to claiming that the Allies covered up the fact that there had been deaths.[39]

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Notes and references[edit]

  1. ^Yehuda Bauer, "Unanswered Questions: Nazi Germany and the Genocide of the Jews", Jewish Resistance and Passivity in the Face of the Holocaust, 1989, p. 237
  2. ^abJewish Partisan Education Foundation,Accessed 22 December 2013.
  3. ^abcTec, Nechama (2014). "Facts, Omissions, and Distortions".Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis.Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. pp. 44–67.doi:10.2307/j.ctt7zswcf.7.ISBN978-0-8132-2589-0.JSTORj.ctt7zswcf.7.
  4. ^abMiddleton-Kaplan, Richard (2014). "The Myth of Jewish Passivity".Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis.Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. pp. 4–7.doi:10.2307/j.ctt7zswcf.ISBN978-0-8132-2589-0.JSTORj.ctt7zswcf.
  5. ^abHenry, Patrick (2014). "Introduction".Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis.Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. pp. xiii–xviii.doi:10.2307/j.ctt7zswcf.ISBN978-0-8132-2589-0.JSTORj.ctt7zswcf.
  6. ^Leni Yahil. "The Warsaw Ghetto Underground Press". In Robert Moses Shapiro, ed.,Why Didn't the Press Shout?Yeshiva University Press, 2003. pp. 457–490
  7. ^Yehuda Bauer, "Unanswered Questions: Nazi Germany and the Genocide of the Jews", Jewish Resistance and Passivity in the Face of the Holocaust, 1989, p. 243
  8. ^(in English)David Wdowiński (1963).And we are not saved.New York: Philosophical Library. p. 222.ISBN978-0-8022-2486-6.Note: Chariton and Lazar were never co-authors of Wdowiński's memoir. Wdowiński is considered the single author.
  9. ^ab"Map of the Jewish uprisings in World War II"(PDF file, direct download 169 KB). Yad Vashem. 2013.
  10. ^Omer-Man, Michael. "This Week in History: Prisoners revolt at Treblinka"The Jerusalem Post,August 5, 2011. Accessed 23 December 2013.
  11. ^Raschke, Richard.Escape from Sobibor.New York: Avon, 1982.
  12. ^Bartrop, Paul R. and Dickerman, Michael:The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection [4 volumes],p. 535
  13. ^Martin Gilbert, 'The Holocaust' (1986), p. 515.
  14. ^abGotovich, José (1998). "Resistance Movements and the Jewish Question". In Michman, Dan (ed.).Belgium and the Holocaust: Jews, Belgians, Germans(2nd ed.). Jerusalem: Yad Vashem. p. 274.ISBN978-965-308-068-3.
  15. ^abcYahil, Leni (1991).The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932–1945.Studies in Jewish History (Reprint (trans.) ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 394.ISBN978-0-19-504523-9.
  16. ^Williams, Althea; Ehrlich, Sarah (19 April 2013)."Escaping the train to Auschwitz".BBC News.Retrieved22 April2013.
  17. ^Various (1991)."Préface".Partisans Armés Juifs, 38 Témoignages.Brussels: Les Enfants des Partisans Juifs de Belgique.
  18. ^Yahil, Leni (1991).The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932–1945.Studies in Jewish History (Reprint (trans.) ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 436.ISBN978-0-19-504523-9.
  19. ^Gotovich, José (1998). "Resistance Movements and the Jewish Question". In Michman, Dan (ed.).Belgium and the Holocaust: Jews, Belgians, Germans(2nd ed.). Jerusalem: Yad Vashem. pp. 281–2.ISBN978-965-308-068-3.
  20. ^abYahil, Leni (1991).The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932–1945.Studies in Jewish History (Reprint (trans.) ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 393.ISBN978-0-19-504523-9.
  21. ^Schreiber, Marion (2003).The Twentieth Train: the True Story of the Ambush of the Death Train to Auschwitz(1st US ed.). New York: Grove Press. p.72.ISBN978-0-8021-1766-3.
  22. ^abSchreiber, Marion (2003).The Twentieth Train: the True Story of the Ambush of the Death Train to Auschwitz(1st US ed.). New York: Grove Press. pp.73–5.ISBN978-0-8021-1766-3.
  23. ^According toSerge Klarsfeld,there were 175 Jews among the 1008 Resistance members executed atMont-Valérien,near Paris, or 17,4%. Quoted by Monique-Lise Cohen et Jean-Louis Dufour in "Les Juifs dans la Résistance", Publisher: Tirésias, 2001)
  24. ^"Les étrangers dans la Résistance".Chemins de mémoire.Government of France.
  25. ^"August 1944: A Jewish partisan in Southern France".This Month in Holocaust History.Yad Vashem. Archived fromthe originalon 3 December 2009.Retrieved17 January2022.
  26. ^Ruby Rohrlich, ed.Resisting the Holocaust.Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 1998.
  27. ^Theodore S. Hamerow (1997),On the Road to the Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitler.Cambridge: Harvard University Press.ISBN0674636805.[page needed]
  28. ^See, e.g., Herbert Lindenberger.Heroic Or Foolish? The 1942 Bombing of a Nazi Anti-Soviet Exhibit.Telos.135 (Summer 2006):127–154.
  29. ^"Amsterdam, 'Monument Joods Verzet 1940-1945'"(in Dutch). Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei. Archived fromthe originalon 22 March 2011.Retrieved17 January2022.
  30. ^Dr. L. de Jong,Het Koninkrijk,Amsterdam, RIOD/Staatsuitgeverij 1975
  31. ^Jewish Soldiers in the Allied Armies– Yad Vashem
  32. ^Veteran Films: A Window on the War– Jewish Museum London
  33. ^Jewish Canadian service in the Second World War
  34. ^abHecht, Ben.Perfidy,first published by Julian Messner, 1961; this edition Milah Press, 1997, pp. 118–133. Hecht cites Bar Adon, Dorothy and Pessach.The Seven who Fell.Sefer Press, 1947, and "The Return of Hanna Senesh" inPioneer Woman,XXV, No. 5, May 1950.
  35. ^Beckman, Morris:The Jewish Brigade
  36. ^"'We proved to the world that we can fight'".The Jerusalem Post.
  37. ^Holocaust in Belorussia – pages 427–428, JewishGen
  38. ^Aharon Brandes (1959) [1945]."The demise of the Jews in Western Poland".In the Bunkers.A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Będzin (in Hebrew and Yiddish). Translated by Lance Ackerfeld. pp. 364–365 – via Jewishgen.org.
  39. ^Freedland, Jonathan (2008-07-25)."The Jewish avengers who survived the death camps and tracked down their tormentors".The Guardian.

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