Many of the Jewish people were outraged by the cruel treatment of not only the Nazi SS police but also the Jewish ghetto police. In 1942 many in the ghetto mainly the older people and people in the government inside the walls thought it was not possible for the four hundred thousand people totally killed off, so they felt it was not necessary to take action. After more and more people saw their families being deported some decided to take a stand. Those that were more enraged were the teenagers in the ghettos. Other people knew that resistance would mean punishment and they thought that it was better to avoid altercation. Warsaw ghetto was not the only ghetto that decided to take a stand Bialystok ghetto rebelled against the Nazi police.
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To help the war efforts against the Russians, Germany told the ghettos to donate all the coats they had to the military. Instead of donating the coats the resistance groups gathered up the coats and burned them. This burning of the coats however it was a sign of resistance the Jewish community, it left them without warm clothes to help them in the harsh weather conditions that they already had difficulty with when they had coats to wear. The Jewish Fighting Organization also destroyed and sabotaged German equipment in the ghettos by setting them on fire. The ZOB knew that eventually the more resistance they showed the Nazis would try to stop the Jewish progress, so they started to create underground bunkers and shelters to hide from the Nazis. The ZOB then took stronger measures after many of the people in the ghettos were randomly executed the organization decided to take measures into their own hands. The ZOB took the ghetto police chief Josef Szerynski and the second in command Yakov Lejkin in planning to execute them. They killed Lejkin but only managed to wound Szerynski. When the Nazis realized that the Jews would no longer go the death camps like sheep to a slaughter they decided to send even more people to Treblinka to stop the numbers rebelling
To help the war efforts against the Russians, Germany told the ghettos to donate all the coats they had to the military. Instead of donating the coats the resistance groups gathered up the coats and burned them. This burning of the coats however it was a sign of resistance the Jewish community, it left them without warm clothes to help them in the harsh weather conditions that they already had difficulty with when they had coats to wear. The Jewish Fighting Organization also destroyed and sabotaged German equipment in the ghettos by setting them on fire. The ZOB knew that eventually the more resistance they showed the Nazis would try to stop the Jewish progress, so they started to create underground bunkers and shelters to hide from the Nazis. The ZOB then took stronger measures after many of the people in the ghettos were randomly executed the organization decided to take measures into their own hands. The ZOB took the ghetto police chief Josef Szerynski and the second in command Yakov Lejkin in planning to execute them. They killed Lejkin but only managed to wound Szerynski. When the Nazis realized that the Jews would no longer go the death camps like sheep to a slaughter they decided to send even more people to Treblinka to stop the numbers rebelling