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1426. Jewish partisans in the Naroch forest
forest in Belorussia. In addition to armed resistance, Jewish resistance also focused on spiritual ... resistance—the attempt to preserve traditions and culture. Soviet Union, 1943.
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1427. Guidelines for Teaching About the Holocaust
between prejudice and discrimination, armed and spiritual resistance, direct and assumed orders ... have multiple meanings. Resistance, for example, usually refers to a physical act of armed revolt ... sabotage; and actual military engagement. Resistance may also be thought of as willful disobedience, such ... in the face of abject brutality was an act of spiritual resistance. Try to avoid stereotypical
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1428. Ardeatine Caves Massacre
loyalist Fascist troops, fought Allied units and partisans from the Italian Resistance movement until they ... surrendered on May 2, 1945. Resistance Bombing in Rome On March 23, 1944—the day which marked ... the 25th anniversary of the founding of Mussolini's Fascist movement—17 members of a resistance cell ... -occupied Rome. The resistance operatives, who had ties to Italy's underground communist movement
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1429. Season 3 Trailer
decide to take on the Nazi regime— they form a resistance group, and risk their lives to protect ... the members of the resistance were well-aware that they would be severely punished if they were caught ... marched away by the Nazis, the locals don’t resist — in fact, they decide to buy their Jewish neighbors
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1430. Anika Walke
Study of Jewish Resistance, Ms. Walke conducted research for her project, “The Jewish Struggle of ... verschwiegene Widerstand in der Sowjetunion [Female Jewish Partisans: The Untold Resistance in the Soviet Union ... Research During her tenure at the Center, Ms. Walke researched Jewish resistance in German-occupied
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1431. Dr. Mia Spiro
conducted research for her project, “Spectacular Nazism: Strategies of Resistance in 1930s Anglo-American ... approaches to literary resistance of Nazism in the 1930s. Focusing on three key interwar novels – Djuna ... contrasting it with aesthetic experimentation and representations of “Other” bodies that fascism resists – the
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1432. David Broudo
his German allies, even the brave Greek forces could not resist. With the arrival of the Germans, the ... resistance unit with other Jewish members. When they learned his identity, they issued him a rifle and ... tracks. Most ingeniously, he smuggled munitions supplies destined for the resistance movement in Athens
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1433. Martin Petrasek
monastery. While at the monastery, Martin found a partisan pamphlet calling on Slovaks to resist the ... the resistance in a nearby town. Martin found the man and was inducted into a partisan brigade ... However, the uprising was short lived—Hitler sent in elite SS units that brutally repressed the resistance
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1434. Writers and Poets in the Ghettos
Poland) became the anthem of the underground resistance in the Krakow ... Vilna ghetto and in labor camps in Estonia, Hirsh Glik wrote resistance songs including the famed "Song ... spiritual resistance. In the Warsaw ghetto, Itzhak
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1435. Current Mass Atrocities Facing Civilians in Burma: Key Takeaways from Experts
to the resistance. Civilians in Chin State also suffered human rights abuses by the military ... arms in resistance, and the military responded by sending large numbers of reinforcements. Fighting ... between the military and the resistance movement has intensified since then, and most of the state is ... currently under the control of resistance forces. Due to its lack of success on the ground, the military has
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1436. Third Reich
Jews, whom the Nazi leadership considered to be the primary "racial" enemy. Resistance to the ... Nazi Regime Key factors that prevented the development of organized resistance to the Nazi ... . Though other small and isolated resistance groups developed, including a loosely organized, communist ... -inspired resistance, the vast majority of the German people supported the Nazi regime until its collapse
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1437. The Oneg Shabbat Archive
establishment of a resistance movement in the ghetto. Creating a Historical Record ... resistance in its several forms, including cultural work, underground schools, the underground press, and ... smuggling, as well as armed resistance. The Oneg Shabbat archive collected an enormous range of ... later posters calling for armed resistance in 1943. The commitment to comprehensive documentation
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1438. German Armed Forces High Command
when Beck tried to organize resistance to Hitler’s plan to attack ... resist German occupation. The SS made use of those lists to embark on a program to annihilate the Polish ... immediately upon capture. Any civilian who was suspected of resisting in any way was also subject to shooting ... that they had never received such orders, even that they had resisted. They fought with honor against a
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1439. Klaus Barbie: The Butcher of Lyon
was the center of the French Resistance Movement. As the local Gestapo chief, Barbie earned the ... nickname “the Butcher of Lyon” for his brutal actions towards Jews and members of the French Resistance ... headquarters in the notorious Hotel Terminus. His most famous victim was the hero of the French resistance ... conversations in France about the war, the French Resistance, and the Holocaust. The
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1440. Estelle Wakszlak Laughlin
labor sites or killing centers. Samek, who helped to organize the resistance movement, built a bunker in ... roundups, resistance fighters met them with artillery fire from resistance fighters. In retaliation, the SS
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1441. Natzweiler-Struthof
represented a German attempt to subdue growing anti-German resistance in western Europe. Suspected resistance ... "Night and Fog." Many prisoners in the Natzweiler-Struthof camp were members of the French resistance
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1442. Nazi Camp System
who resisted their domination and those they judged to be racially inferior or politically ... unacceptable. People arrested for resisting German rule were mostly sent to forced-labor or concentration camps ... resist German rule in occupied territories are to be arrested and deported to concentration camps in
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1443. Bernard Kutas collection
Bernard Kutas was a resistance fighter in France during the German occupation of that country in ... World War II. Known by the code name of "Burstein," he was one of the leaders of the resistance group "L ... Consists of mimeographed documents and resistance tracts issued between 1943-1944 by various groups ... involved in the resistance movement in France. Includes tracts distributed by "Francs-tireurs et partisans
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1444. World War II: In Depth
Stiffening Red Army resistance in August and again in November 1941 prevented the Germans from capturing the ... armed forces to resist enabled the Allies to quickly occupy French North Africa to the Tunisian border ... and continued to resist. Mussolini, who had been arrested by Italian military authorities, was rescued ... resisted tenaciously until they surrendered on May 2, 1945. After the liberation of Rome, Allied air forces
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1445. The Krakow (Cracow) Ghetto during the Holocaust
Auschwitz. Resistance in the Krakow Ghetto A Jewish resistance movement existed in the ... underground, two existing resistance groups, the Zionist-oriented Bnei Akiva, led by Laban Leibowicz, Shimon ... Jewish underground fighters suffered heavy losses. In the fall of 1944 the remnants of the resistance ... Jewish resistance groups in Budapest. Liberation of Krakow and the Aftermath of the Holocaust
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1446. France
of France. The French Résistance played a significant role in aiding Allied armies in this effort ... Members of the French resistance movement came from every economic milieu and from every element of the ... the time of the occupation, resistance cells had carried out sabotage and guerilla actions against ... trapped behind German lines. Now resistance groups helped to speed the Allied advance against German
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1447. Making Good on Nuremberg: Impressions from the ICC Review Conference in Kampala
where the Lord's Resistance Army has murdered over twenty thousand people and abducted tens of thousands ... women from northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army has murdered over twenty thousand people ... notorious Ugandan leader of the Lord's Resistance Army -- are still at large. Plans to implement a system of ... Northern Uganda, where a brutal 20-year conflict involving Kony's Lord's Resistance Army displaced close to
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1448. Lachwa
Other members of the resistance included Asher Hafets, Hersz Migdalowicz, Icie Slucki, the brothers ... began to prepare for armed resistance. Although Roszczyn wanted to break out of the ghetto the night ... resistance managed to kill six German and eight Belorussian policemen and injure some others. Approximately 1 ... meant that the Jews had more opportunity to resist than in the larger towns. In some other ghettos
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1449. 1943: Key Dates
Bojowa; ZOB) resist the actions of the SS and police with armed force. February ... fighters resist the German attempt to liquidate the ghetto. German SS and police units shoot approximately ... locations in Lublin District in the Generalgouvernement. Some resistance fighters escape from the ... Sweden with the help of the Danish resistance movement and many individual Danish citizens
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1450. Yitshak Arad
Independent Scholar, Yad Vashem (Israel) Project: Archival Research Anthology on Jewish Resistance ... Fellowship: Research Fellowship of the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance Dates at