What Are The Effects Of Resistance To The Holocaust
How could an individual fight back in a way that sets what they are fighting for in
Motion? The Holocaust caused the Jewish people during the 1930’s to resist in order to fight back the Nazi’s soldiers, in the ghettos and concentration camps the Jews were sent to. But the Jewish and other people in the ghettos and camps did not always need weapons and violence to fight back. Thesis Statement: During the Holocaust, Jews used armed and unarmed forms of resistance in order to retain their humanity. The main form of resistance during this time was unarmed which means to fight back in any other way than using weapons. Jews in the Theresienstadt ghetto and many other ghettos would resist unarmed by staying in school and smuggling in books to read and learn from. “Jews smuggled in books and manuscripts into many ghettos for safekeeping, and opened underground libraries in numerous ghettos” (“Spiritual Resistance”).By staying educated in the ghettos this allowed the Jews to fight back against the Nazi’s orders. These people were still able to keep their humanity because they were not …show more content…
hurting or killing in their form of resistance. Another way the Jews were able to resist unarmed was by escaping the ghettos.
Escaping into the forests around the ghettos allowed the Jews to get away from the harsh conditions in the ghetto. After suffering in the conditions of the ghetto the best way to escape, resist and not harm anyone in the process was to escape the ghetto. “Thousands of young Jews resisted by escaping from the ghettos into the forests” (“Jewish Resistance”). In these ghettos people were starve, worked to death and could get killed for anything, therefor by escaping the ghetto they could resist their fate. By escaping the ghettos, the soldiers were not aware of this which meant while this resistance was going on nobody was being hurt nor killed in the process making it unarmed resistance. The last way the Jews fought back was armed and this act was done by blowing up a crematorium.
Armed resistance was another affective form of resistance because it got the Jews point across to the Nazi’s.
Five women in the Sonderkommado ghetto five women decided to stick up for what they believed in attempted the blow up the crematorium. “The SS identified five women, four of them Jewish, who had been involved in supplying the members of the Sonderkommando with explosives to blow up a crematorium. All five women were killed” (“Jewish Resistance”). In the Jewish religion they do not believe in cremation therefore by resisting the Nazi soldiers they took it in their own hand to fight back and blow up the crematorium. By doing this form of resistance people were killed and injured therefore this is a form of armed resistance. Jews were tired of the way they were treated therefore they would to everything and anything to fight back some violently and some
spiritually.
The Holocaust caused people to kill, fight and resist weather it was armed or unarmed, they fought back. Staying in school and learning helped the Jews think less about what was going on around them and resist the Nazi soldiers. Escaping and hiding was another form of unarmed resistance because they could escape the ghetto without hurting or killing anyone in the meantime. Lastly the women blowing up the crematorium to stand up to the Nazis with armed resistance. Resistance was a way to help the Jews fightback and with unarmed resistance they could still could still keep their morals and humanity, and with armed resistance they were able to show the Nazis how they felt without caring about the effects.
Motion? The Holocaust caused the Jewish people during the 1930’s to resist in order to fight back the Nazi’s soldiers, in the ghettos and concentration camps the Jews were sent to. But the Jewish and other people in the ghettos and camps did not always need weapons and violence to fight back. Thesis Statement: During the Holocaust, Jews used armed and unarmed forms of resistance in order to retain their humanity. The main form of resistance during this time was unarmed which means to fight back in any other way than using weapons. Jews in the Theresienstadt ghetto and many other ghettos would resist unarmed by staying in school and smuggling in books to read and learn from. “Jews smuggled in books and manuscripts into many ghettos for safekeeping, and opened underground libraries in numerous ghettos” (“Spiritual Resistance”).By staying educated in the ghettos this allowed the Jews to fight back against the Nazi’s orders. These people were still able to keep their humanity because they were not …show more content…
hurting or killing in their form of resistance. Another way the Jews were able to resist unarmed was by escaping the ghettos.
Escaping into the forests around the ghettos allowed the Jews to get away from the harsh conditions in the ghetto. After suffering in the conditions of the ghetto the best way to escape, resist and not harm anyone in the process was to escape the ghetto. “Thousands of young Jews resisted by escaping from the ghettos into the forests” (“Jewish Resistance”). In these ghettos people were starve, worked to death and could get killed for anything, therefor by escaping the ghetto they could resist their fate. By escaping the ghettos, the soldiers were not aware of this which meant while this resistance was going on nobody was being hurt nor killed in the process making it unarmed resistance. The last way the Jews fought back was armed and this act was done by blowing up a crematorium.
Armed resistance was another affective form of resistance because it got the Jews point across to the Nazi’s.
Five women in the Sonderkommado ghetto five women decided to stick up for what they believed in attempted the blow up the crematorium. “The SS identified five women, four of them Jewish, who had been involved in supplying the members of the Sonderkommando with explosives to blow up a crematorium. All five women were killed” (“Jewish Resistance”). In the Jewish religion they do not believe in cremation therefore by resisting the Nazi soldiers they took it in their own hand to fight back and blow up the crematorium. By doing this form of resistance people were killed and injured therefore this is a form of armed resistance. Jews were tired of the way they were treated therefore they would to everything and anything to fight back some violently and some
spiritually.
The Holocaust caused people to kill, fight and resist weather it was armed or unarmed, they fought back. Staying in school and learning helped the Jews think less about what was going on around them and resist the Nazi soldiers. Escaping and hiding was another form of unarmed resistance because they could escape the ghetto without hurting or killing anyone in the meantime. Lastly the women blowing up the crematorium to stand up to the Nazis with armed resistance. Resistance was a way to help the Jews fightback and with unarmed resistance they could still could still keep their morals and humanity, and with armed resistance they were able to show the Nazis how they felt without caring about the effects.