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1401. Kovno
. Documentation and Resistance Throughout the years of hardship and horror, the Jewish community in Kovno ... resistance, and death. George Kadish (Hirsh Kadushin), for example, secretly ... overcoat. The Kovno ghetto had several Jewish resistance groups. The resistance acquired arms ... Organizatsye) was established, uniting the major resistance groups in the ghetto. Under this organization
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1402. Operation Torch: The Anglo-American Invasion of French North Africa
offer minimal resistance. This would prove wrong. On November 7, Vichy forces thwarted an ... French resistance then caused significant losses at several of the Moroccan assault points before the ... launched. At Oran, the Center Task Force also encountered stubborn French resistance before Oran ... the French resistance in Algiers, which neutralized the French XIX Corps before the Allied landings
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1403. Rescue in Denmark
only occupied country that actively resisted the Nazi regime's attempts to deport its Jewish citizens ... resistance that the Nazis were planning to deport the Danish Jews. The Danes responded quickly, organizing a ... Nevertheless, without the Danes’ widespread support for Jews and active resistance to Nazi policies, few if any ... summer of 1943, with Allied military advances, resistance activity in Denmark increases in the form of
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1404. Chad S.A. Gibbs
Darkness: Perseverance, Resistance, and Revolt at Treblinka.” Chad’s dissertation makes of use spatial and ... social network analyses to uncover relationships and geographies important to prisoner resistance at the ... strategies and resistance planning. Taking advantage of a greatly expanded testimonial source base, Chad ... and resistance at the camp while working to recover the long-overlooked experiences of women inside
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1405. Jewish Councils (Judenraete)
. Jewish council members held varied views on resistance. In Sosnowiec, Moshe Merin denounced the ... underground, believing that armed resistance would doom the entire ghetto. In ... council opposition to resistance often prompted resentment within the underground, which sometimes accused ... believed that resistance should be implemented only as a last resort—when a ghetto was about to be
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1406. Josiane (Josie) Traum
a factory making uniforms in London. 1942-1945: Josie’s mother took part in the Belgian Resistance ... movement by hiding refugees in her attic. Through her involvement in the underground resistance movement ... the resistance and was taken away at times by the Nazis for questioning. Josie’s aunts (Fanny’s two ... sisters) were also hidden in Belgium by the resistance. 1945-1949: After Belgium was liberated, Josie was
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1407. Jews Against the Nazis
fought the Germans and saved many lives. Jews were actively participating in the French resistance. Some ... were in London with the head of the resistance General De Gaulle. Jews also established resistance ... newspapers. There was armed resistance in at least 50 ghettos and two killing centers. The most famous was
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1408. Dr. Margaret Paxson
Fellowship of the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance, Dr. Paxson conducted research for ... her project, “Remembering the Good: Legacies of Rescue and Resistance in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.” Dr ... the Center, Dr. Paxson researched the rescue and resistance efforts in the small village of Le ... repercussions of active resistance and how these events are memorialized by the participants and the community
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1409. German Rule in Occupied Europe
resistance movement, were especially targeted for persecution. The Germans destroyed Polish cultural and ... Germany. As a result of the wartime German policies, resistance movements sprang up throughout ... —even priests). The Nazis seek to terrorize the Polish population and prevent them from resisting Nazi ... policies. Thousands of Poles are arrested and massacred. Despite the terror, the resistance movement in
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1410. Vilna
. Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto ... The Vilna ghetto had a significant Jewish resistance movement. A group ... resistance created hiding places for weapons and prepared to fight the Germans. In early September 1943 ... realizing that the Germans intended the final destruction of the ghetto, resistance members skirmished with
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1411. The German Army and the Racial Nature of the War against the Soviet Union
come up against much stronger Soviet resistance when the regular shooting of Soviet army political ... meant the starvation of millions of Slavs. The Ruthless Repression of Resistance In the ... type of resistance, even passive resistance, with shooting. German forces burned entire villages and
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1412. The Art and Angst of Translating
horrors of the Holocaust but also people’s resilience, love of family, hope, and resistance. By Ania ... horrors of the Holocaust but also people’s resilience, love of family, hope, and resistance. An example ... of the resistance is best shown in the 2014 book by Arthur Allen titled The Fantastic Laboratory of ... among them my pharmacy professor. The resistance was in the fact that the attenuated (weakened) vaccine
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1413. Warsaw
the Treblinka killing center, resisted deportation, some of them using small arms smuggled into the ... Spurred on by the ghetto resistance unit known as the Jewish Combat Organization (Żydowska Organizacja ... Bojowa; ŻOB), ghetto inhabitants offered organized resistance in the first days of the operation ... inflicting casualties on the well-armed and equipped SS and police units. They continued to resist
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1414. Denmark
protected the Jews. Resistance and Rescue in Denmark The tone of the German occupation ... had been minimal resistance to the Germans during the first years of the occupation, labor strikes and ... and various social and economic organizations. The Danish resistance, assisted by many ordinary Danish ... . Resistance workers and sympathizers initially helped Jews move into hiding places throughout the country and
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1415. References
Bennett, Under the Shadow of the Swastika: The Moral Dilemmas of Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler ... ’s Press, 2000); Martin Dean, “Microcosm: Collaboration and Resistance during the Holocaust in the Mir ... Resistance during the Holocaust: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (Bern: Peter Lang, 2004), pp. 223–259 ... Resistance: Jews and Belarussians in German-Occupied Minsk,” in Gaunt, et al, eds., Collaboration and
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1416. The Frieda Belinfante Collection
Netherlands, Frieda joined a Dutch resistance group. She forged identity documents for people hiding from the ... -Jewish Resistance Holocaust Encyclopedia—Lesbians and the Third Reich Born in Amsterdam in 1904, Frieda ... Belinfante joined a Dutch resistance group during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, forging identity
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1417. Estelle Laughlin: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
an armed resistance. They started to build bunkers. As I pointed out the buildings were practically ... vacant, so whoever, most of the people moved to the ground floor. The resistance fighters started to ... down a flimsy little ladder and you were out of sight. Well, the resistance fighters built a network of ... the Jewish fighters were still fighting. It is really noteworthy that the Jewish resistance fighters
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1418. 12 Years That Shook the World Podcast
join the resistance movement. In defiance of the Nazi regime, Frieda, a lesbian, will risk her life to ... annex Austria. Then, she steps into the story, herself. Run time: 22 mins. Resister in a Nazi Uniform ... friends at the University of Munich secretly form a resistance group called “The White Rose.” They ... group of resistance fighters. While surviving in the forbidding wilderness, they also rescue Jews, and
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1419. Jewish Youth Movements in Wartime Poland: From Minority to Leadership
ghetto resistance and partisan fighting organizations. Flight and ... in turn became the leaders of the ghetto resistance and took the initiative in determining political ... instrumental in the early organization of resistance. The mobility of the youth movement leadership also ... themselves after the war for neither recognizing the danger nor organizing resistance earlier. After
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1420. Killing Center Revolts
Although many resisters knew they were bound to lose against overwhelmingly superior German forces, they ... completion, prisoners fear that they will be killed and the camp dismantled. Resistance leaders in the camp ... the camp dismantled. Prisoners form a resistance network in early 1943. They plan a revolt and mass ... remaining Jewish prisoners. Some of the prisoners resist and escape. Three prisoners survive. At least 172
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1421. Sonderkommandos
either in the gas chamber complex itself or in separate barracks. Resistance ... Sonderkommandos did not do so without resistance. Thanks to one ... war. These images, smuggled out by the Polish resistance, are some of ... they would be murdered after a few months of work. Those who made the difficult decision to resist or
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1422. Deportations to and from the Warsaw Ghetto
Adam Czerniaków, refused to cooperate. Although Czerniaków did not call for resistance to the ... the Warsaw ghetto. When Jewish inhabitants resisted the initial deportation efforts (in what became ... to break the resistance. More than 7,000 Jews, most of them resistance fighters or persons hidden
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1423. Polish Victims
“leadership class.” The aim was to remove those Poles seen as most capable of organizing resistance to German ... indiscriminate retaliatory measures in response to resistance activities. They answered attacks on Germans with ... reprisal for resistance operations. German “pacification” operations in areas of partisan activity included ... coordination of the activities of the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa). The Polish resistance staged a
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1424. Combatants and Protectors
Bielski hide in a dense forest and form a group of resistance fighters. While surviving in the forbidding ... forest, the group of resistance fighters—or partisans—would grow. And they need a leader. The Bielskis ... ’s discussed when it comes to Jews as as victims of the Holocaust—as opposed to to Jews as those who resisted ... armed resistance was far stronger and more varied in form than is generally acknowledged. Jews in Europe
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1425. Dr. Joshua Zimmerman
Santa Cruz. For his Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance Research Fellowship, he ... conducted research for his project “The Wounds of History: The Polish Resistance and the Holocaust.” Dr ... Polish Resistance and the Holocaust,” which examines the behavior and attitude of the Polish Home Army