Actions Speak Louder Than Silence
How could millions of one race allow themselves to be slaughtered by allowing to be placed in ghettos and concentration camps, being exterminated shortly after? In the United States, about 2.6 million people died in the year 2014. Between March 1942 and November 1943, an approximate amount of 1.5 million Jews were killed in Operation Reinhard killing centers. From the very start of the war in 1939, Jews have been placed in Ghettos, created by the Nazis to confine and segregate them from the outside world. The Holocaust was an extermination period (From 1933-1945) where Hitler and the Nazis killed 11 million people, 6 million of them being Jews. The Jewish resistance was a movement whether it was armed or unarmed that started to preserve other Jewish life. The Jewish resistance helped set an example for other Jews that they shouldn't just be killed meaninglessly. During the Holocaust, the Jewish people participated in both armed and unarmed resistance in order to stand up what they believe in and fight for others that can't fight for …show more content…
Jews realized that even just one individual that stands up for other Jews could spark a resistance that would mean that those brave enough are standing up for those that aren't able to. Some Jews helped by smuggling in weapons and smuggling in food (small children did this). "On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had crushed the uprising and left the ghetto area in ruins. Surviving ghetto residents were deported to concentration camps or killing centers." (ushmm.org) The Jews not only stood up for others that couldn't stand up for themselves, but also made way for others to resist Nazi oppression in other
How could millions of one race allow themselves to be slaughtered by allowing to be placed in ghettos and concentration camps, being exterminated shortly after? In the United States, about 2.6 million people died in the year 2014. Between March 1942 and November 1943, an approximate amount of 1.5 million Jews were killed in Operation Reinhard killing centers. From the very start of the war in 1939, Jews have been placed in Ghettos, created by the Nazis to confine and segregate them from the outside world. The Holocaust was an extermination period (From 1933-1945) where Hitler and the Nazis killed 11 million people, 6 million of them being Jews. The Jewish resistance was a movement whether it was armed or unarmed that started to preserve other Jewish life. The Jewish resistance helped set an example for other Jews that they shouldn't just be killed meaninglessly. During the Holocaust, the Jewish people participated in both armed and unarmed resistance in order to stand up what they believe in and fight for others that can't fight for …show more content…
Jews realized that even just one individual that stands up for other Jews could spark a resistance that would mean that those brave enough are standing up for those that aren't able to. Some Jews helped by smuggling in weapons and smuggling in food (small children did this). "On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had crushed the uprising and left the ghetto area in ruins. Surviving ghetto residents were deported to concentration camps or killing centers." (ushmm.org) The Jews not only stood up for others that couldn't stand up for themselves, but also made way for others to resist Nazi oppression in other