April-May of 1942 during the Holocaust, over 6 million Jewish people and 5 million others were killed. Resistance was impossible for the Jewish people and those who lived in occupied countries. They were resisting among other things, isolation, dehumanization, starvation, illness, and death.
Jews used weapons and physically attacked the Germans (“Armed Resistance”) Underground organizations in Poland and Ukraine were formed. Served the purpose to wage armed struggle, to stage an uprising in the ghetto or break out of the closed ghetto. Difficulties included: smuggling arms into the ghetto, training the fighters for surprise attack by the Germans. One of the many ways the Jewish people resisted the SS was raiding weapon store rooms and using …show more content…
Underground organizations created an extensive communication network that helped connect the isolated ghettos. Couriers bought and smuggled weapon, medicine, false paper, and helped arranged escapes. Jews smuggled books and manuscripts into many ghettos for safekeeping, and opened underground libraries in numerous ghettos (“Spiritual Resistance”). These underground libraries included the secret library at Czestochowa, Poland, which served more than 1,000 readers. Activists established a 60,000-volume library in the ghetto near Prague. Unlike the schools, these were not always forbidden by German authorities. Concerts, lectures, theatrical productions, cabarets, and art contests took place in many ghettos, despite the …show more content…
Even in the death camps, in the shadow of the gas chambers and crematoria, Jews resisted against their oppressors. Three bold and daring uprisings occurred in the killing centers at Treblinka. Few barracks existed for resident inmates. Camp guards temporarily spared small numbers of prisoners for use in special units called the Sonderkommando, which operated the crematoria and other camp facilities. But those members realized that it was only a matter of time before they, too, would be gassed. A few months after the revolt, Germans closed the camp, leveled it, and planted pine trees to hide all traces of the mass murders. At least 750,000 Jews perished at the camp between July 1942 and November 1943.
CONCLUSION
Restatement of Thesis (same element as Thesis, but need to state differently):
In conclusion, the Jewish Resistance played a major part during the Holocaust. Jews held onto false hope that their lives would be spared if they were obedient of the rules. Many Jews practiced some form of resistance. The efforts and attempts of resistance by the Jewish people against a force as strong as the Nazi party and its associates certainly shows that one must be willing to fight in order to achieve what they live for. Jewish resistance against the genocide is a concept that continues to
Jews used weapons and physically attacked the Germans (“Armed Resistance”) Underground organizations in Poland and Ukraine were formed. Served the purpose to wage armed struggle, to stage an uprising in the ghetto or break out of the closed ghetto. Difficulties included: smuggling arms into the ghetto, training the fighters for surprise attack by the Germans. One of the many ways the Jewish people resisted the SS was raiding weapon store rooms and using …show more content…
Underground organizations created an extensive communication network that helped connect the isolated ghettos. Couriers bought and smuggled weapon, medicine, false paper, and helped arranged escapes. Jews smuggled books and manuscripts into many ghettos for safekeeping, and opened underground libraries in numerous ghettos (“Spiritual Resistance”). These underground libraries included the secret library at Czestochowa, Poland, which served more than 1,000 readers. Activists established a 60,000-volume library in the ghetto near Prague. Unlike the schools, these were not always forbidden by German authorities. Concerts, lectures, theatrical productions, cabarets, and art contests took place in many ghettos, despite the …show more content…
Even in the death camps, in the shadow of the gas chambers and crematoria, Jews resisted against their oppressors. Three bold and daring uprisings occurred in the killing centers at Treblinka. Few barracks existed for resident inmates. Camp guards temporarily spared small numbers of prisoners for use in special units called the Sonderkommando, which operated the crematoria and other camp facilities. But those members realized that it was only a matter of time before they, too, would be gassed. A few months after the revolt, Germans closed the camp, leveled it, and planted pine trees to hide all traces of the mass murders. At least 750,000 Jews perished at the camp between July 1942 and November 1943.
CONCLUSION
Restatement of Thesis (same element as Thesis, but need to state differently):
In conclusion, the Jewish Resistance played a major part during the Holocaust. Jews held onto false hope that their lives would be spared if they were obedient of the rules. Many Jews practiced some form of resistance. The efforts and attempts of resistance by the Jewish people against a force as strong as the Nazi party and its associates certainly shows that one must be willing to fight in order to achieve what they live for. Jewish resistance against the genocide is a concept that continues to