On September 1st 1939, the German Army invaded Poland, starting World War II. France, Poland and Great Britain were among the first of the Allies to join the war against Hitler and the Third Reich. On September 10th 1939, Canada officially entered the war. During World War 2 the Allies failed to provide the necessary assistance that was needed in order to liberate the Jewish people. Feeling abandoned and neglected, the Jewish people decided to fight against the prejudice on their own. They established the Jewish resistance. France, Great Britain and Russia as well as their colonies fought against Hitler and his regime, these were known as the Allies. The final solution, was a Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews. It was introduced
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Though the Jewish people faced the bulk of the Nazi oppression, they to were able to resist in various ways. The resistance was an amazing demonstration of the Jewish resilience in a time of extreme horror. It was not a resistance of pure physical terms, but of spiritual, moral and symbolic forms. Despite punishment, prayer groups met, children were educated, news reports were spread and culture flourished. In order to save as many lives as possible many reforms were implemented. Networks were set up where they could smuggle Jewish children across Europe into Switzerland. As wells as, any Jewish person who had documentation to work outside the ghettos smuggled in food for the people, since they were only provided with 30-60% of the necessary calories to sustain life. The first wave of the final solution was deliberately planned and executed to annihilate any forms of the resistance. In the ghettos, the Jewish people were isolated from the rest of society. So they resorted to hunger strikes and, in the east, escaping to the forest. “ Desperate times, call for desperate measures” facing death, all alone the Jewish people clutched desperately to the things that they knew and believed. With the aid of the resistance, these people against all odds fought back against their oppressors and found a light at the end of a long
Though the Jewish people faced the bulk of the Nazi oppression, they to were able to resist in various ways. The resistance was an amazing demonstration of the Jewish resilience in a time of extreme horror. It was not a resistance of pure physical terms, but of spiritual, moral and symbolic forms. Despite punishment, prayer groups met, children were educated, news reports were spread and culture flourished. In order to save as many lives as possible many reforms were implemented. Networks were set up where they could smuggle Jewish children across Europe into Switzerland. As wells as, any Jewish person who had documentation to work outside the ghettos smuggled in food for the people, since they were only provided with 30-60% of the necessary calories to sustain life. The first wave of the final solution was deliberately planned and executed to annihilate any forms of the resistance. In the ghettos, the Jewish people were isolated from the rest of society. So they resorted to hunger strikes and, in the east, escaping to the forest. “ Desperate times, call for desperate measures” facing death, all alone the Jewish people clutched desperately to the things that they knew and believed. With the aid of the resistance, these people against all odds fought back against their oppressors and found a light at the end of a long