Resistance: They Fought Back

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During the Holocaust Jews did not go to their deaths as sheep to the slaughter; they fought back.

Few Jews had access to weapons in the Warsaw Ghetto, but they resisted nonetheless.

Kovner wrote a Manifesto, the first published call for Jews to fight back.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans.

Even in Nazi death camps, Jews rebelled.

Many groups of Jews escaped the ghettos to fight in the forests, denying these areas to Germans.

Women played an outsized role in the Jewish resistance, risking their lives daily.

Children were among the most tragic victims in the Holocaust.