Essay On Jewish Resistance During Ww2

You are a Jew caught in Nazi controlled Europe during WWII. You have been taken from your home and forced into a ghetto along with your Jewish friends and neighbors. The area is very cramped and you have been given only miniscule rations of food. German Officers have just arrived to transport your family, friends, and yourself to an unknown destination, and based on what these oppressors have done to you so far, you figure that where they plan to take you isn’t pleasant to say the least. Your world, your dignity, and some of your friends have been stolen. What are you going to do now that these tormentors are trying to steal you? Many Jews understandably obeyed the Nazis. They were told that the price of resistance would be their lives. Resistance during this time was suicide. Still, there were some who would not tolerate this treatment lying down. There were uprisings. There was symbolic rebellion that did not travel any further than the mind, and there was forceful rebellion of partisans ready to attack with guns and grenades. The Jews who were ready to give their life to avenge what had been taken cannot be forgotten. Throughout the Holocaust, Jewish efforts of resistance were actively being taken in multiple …show more content…
There were about 500 fighters in this unit. The Jewish Military Union, with about 250 fighters in its ranks, had some tension with the Jewish Combat Organization because the Jewish Military Union had more conservative political views. Despite this, these two organizations joined efforts to prevent Germans from liquidating ghettos any further. In October of 1942, SS chief Heinrich Himmler ordered the evacuation of all residents of the Warsaw ghetto. The Jewish Combat Organization and the Jewish Military Union began to arrange the resistance in Warsaw (“Warsaw Ghetto