Why Do People Resist The Holocaust

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The Jews were not killed like pigs to the slaughter. People started to rebel when they found out or at least heard rumors. Many had died in the extermination camps. People rebelled in many ways. Some of those were attempts at escaping and fighting the Nazis that had imprisoned them. However, those who did resist those ways were going to face death. But, those who just tried living out normal lived regardless of the horrible conditions were also thought of as resisting. Not allowing the Nazis to change their lifestyle and bother them is like ignoring an annoying bully and not allowing them to affect them. There were many armed uprisings inside the ghettos as well. The people imprisoned rose up as a group against their

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