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France

Ariadna Scriabina, co-founder of Armée Juive Despite amounting to only 1% of the French population, Jews comprised about 15-20% of the French Resistance.[19] Some of the Jewish resistance members were refugees from Germany, Poland and other central European states.[20]

Although the majority of the French and foreign Jews involved in the French Resistance participated in the general Resistance movements, some Jews also set up their own armed resistance movement: the Armée Juive (Jewish Army), a Zionist organization, which at its height, numbered some 2,000 fighters. Operating throughout occupied France, it smuggled hundreds of Jews to Spain and Switzerland, launched attacks against occupying German forces, and targeted Nazi informants and Gestapo agents. Armee Juive participated in the general French uprising of August 1944, fighting in Paris, Lyon, and Toulouse.[21]

Jewish resistance in German-occupied Europe

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'''Although many French Jews rose up in defense of their land from the occupying Germans, very few Jews chose to resist the government that was set up within Vichy France. Although there was still oppression against the Jews within Vichy France, the majority of the population believed that the remaining remnants of the former French government that were still allowed to operate within Vichy France would not allow them to be harmed by the Germans occupying the Northern and Coastal France. Since it was believed that what remained of France's true government would not allow harm to come to its people, including Jews, most resistance groups chose to focus on liberating France from the areas that were occupied by the Germans for defense against any future Allied Attack.'''