Essay On Jewish Resistance

Why do people resist? Is it because they feel the need to correct the wrong being done in the world? This is why there are so many resistance groups involved in what most people would consider. Evil Hitler had many who disagreed with him many of those included Jewish, Polish, and German teen resistance efforts.
In 1939 Hitler began moving Jewish people into an unforgiving environment. Within the ghettos the Jews were given little food and little water. They were beaten and treated like animals. This drove them to resist the evil that killed their families, friends, and faith. An article describing Jewish resistance read “Between 1941 and 1943, underground resistance movements developed in approximately 100 ghettos,” (Jewish Uprising in Ghettos). Deep down they all knew this would not work, but despite doubt everyone one was desperate to live and resisting made sense, (Jewish Uprising in Ghettos). Out of all the ghettos resistance “the Warsaw ghetto uprising in the spring of 1943 was the largest single …show more content…
During this time teen resistances were everywhere but “the Edelweiss Pirates were one of the largest youth groups who refused to participate in Nazi youth activities,” (Faces of Courage). Adolescents involved in this group were sons and daughters of average working-class parents (Faces of Courage). They did not agree with being “bullied into absolute obedience,” (Faces of Courage). Their ages ranged between 16 to 18 years of age (Faces of Courage). Like the Jews in ghettos, these teens kept fighting knowing their lives were on the line. “Nazi patrols were constantly looking for members of the pirates , and those who were caught were imprisoned, sent to reform school, psychiatric hospitals, concentration camps, and many lost their lives,” (Faces of Courage). At this point a theme starts to emerge: people fight for what they think is right despite