Essay On Jewish Resistance

Another form of resistance was the Rosenstrasse Protest which was carried out in 1943. This protest was the only known protest against the deportation of Jews. Hundreds of Jewish men that were married to German women were arrested and interned at the Rosenstrasse Jewish Community Center, which was located in Berlin, German. The German women protested because they refused to abandon their Jewish husbands. Once a German divorced a Jew, the Nazis would find that specific Jew and send him immediately to an extermination camp. About 1,700 Jews were saved from deportation because of the acts of these unarmed women and about 98 percent of German Jews had survived the Holocaust because of their intermarriage (Ash, 1997). There were many different partisan …show more content…
One of the most important Jewish resistance efforts were of the Bielski Partisans. This partisan group was established by three Belorussian brothers, Tuvia, Asael, and Zus Bielski, after their parents and two brothers were killed by German authorities. Tuvia commanded the group while Asael became the deputy and Zus oversaw the reconnaissance. Their younger brother, Aharon was also a part of this group. The Bielski Partisans operated in Western Belorussia between 1942 and 1944. The brothers were very familiar with the German territory and customs which helped them avoid the German and Belorussian authorities. They encouraged Jews to escape ghettos and camps and to join them in the forest. Also, they would regularly send guides into the ghettos so that they could bring Jews to the forest. The group leaders would try to provide a safe place for all the Jews but particularly women, children, and the elderly. In late 1942, the Bielski’s carried out a special mission that saved over 100 Jews from the Iwie Ghetto just before the Germans began to liquidate it. Throughout 1942 and 1944, the Bielski Partisans were able to save more than 1,200 Jews from World War II (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,