The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

A young girl, no more than 11 years old sneaks under the cruel ghetto’s wall for the second time that week. Her young, yet already frail parents can not even notice that she is gone as they slave away making any money they can. They do notice however that today she is late coming home. The Holocaust was a mass genocide of primarily the Jewish population carried out by the Nazi’s- who were German. It happened during World War II from the early 1930s to the mid 1940s. The Jewish people resisted admirably against the Nazis during World War II to regain their dignity through armed and unarmed resistances. One form of resistance perpetrated by the Jews was armed resistance; which is where the Jews would arm themselves with whatever could be used as a weapon and stand against Nazi soldiers. An example of armed resistance is the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. “As German SS and police units entered the ghetto, members of the Jewish Fighting Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB) and other Jewish groups attacked German tanks with molotov cocktails, hand grenades, and a handful of small arms” (“Jewish”). Fitting in the armed category because they had to arm themselves in order to attack the …show more content…
One example of unarmed resistance is documentation, where they would keep archives of Jewish writings. “These efforts served to gather evidence on situation of Jews in occupied Europe and also sought to reaffirm a Jewish sense of community, history and civilization in the face of both physical and spiritual annihilation” (“Spiritual”). Meaning that in these dark times they found something that brought them together, something that grounded them. Relating back to them trying to keep some shred of dignity by showing that this would not break them apart. Similarly, another form of unarmed resistance is the teaching of the Jewish