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= Jewish Resistance Before Liberation =

Vilna Partisans

 * Vilna was a Jewish ghetto that the Jewish resistance, The United Partisan Organization, was centered in
 * The resistance held weapons and prepared to fight the Germans
 * September 1943 plans of the Germans to destroy the ghetto were revealed
 * The resistance movement fought back against the German army for their freedom
 * Some of the Jewish people escaped into the Rudninkai and Naroch forests outside the city

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

 * From July 22 - September 12, 1942 the German authorities murdered 300,00 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto
 * On July 28, 1942 several Jewish underground organizations created armed sell defense units
 * These units were called the Jewish Combat Organization
 * There were 2 separate Organizations that fought for the same cause
 * In the summer of 1942 the Jewish people obtained pistols and explosives
 * The German forces began to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto on April 19, 1943
 * When the Germans started deporting the Jewish people of the Warsaw Ghetto that is when they fought back
 * The Germans were surprised by the attack and lost 12 of their soldiers
 * The Germans quited the resistance quickly and effectively

Sobibór Uprising

 * 1943 the transports to death camps slowed
 * The Jewish people now new that they would die soon
 * At this time they created a resistance yet again
 * The resistance lured SS Nazi officers into store house by telling them they were getting new coats and boots
 * The Jewish people killed the officers who fell for the tricks
 * They Nazis did not have roll call for the camp
 * This allowed the Jewish people to escape undetected
 * In total 300 Jewish people escaped from the camp
 * Only 50 of the 300 that escaped survived the war

Spiritual Resistance In The Ghettos

 * The Jewish people tried to maintain their everyday day, civilized lives as much as possible
 * The people refused to have their spirits broken

The Working Group/ Europa Plan

 * There are three different groups
 * The academic working group
 * The educational working group
 * The communications working group
 * The Europa plan is Jewish aid and rescue
 * They rescued children and rescuing by offering money in trade for the release of the Jewish people
 * They rescued rabbis
 * They helped them to escape camps

Mendel Grossman

 * Jewish photographer who was sent to Jewish Ghettos
 * Took pictures of the Ghettos to show the horrible conditions
 * He was sent to a concentration camp
 * Held onto his film and after he died his sister retrieved the film and published all of the pictures

Janusz Korczak

 * Director of the Orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto
 * Refused to leave the children even when they were deported to Trebinka
 * H followed the children into the gas chambers

= Works Cited =
 * http://www.ushmm.org/