Bravery was everywhere. In one instance, a group of elderly Jews armed with nothing but stones and a few Molotov cocktails tried to storm a tank. They were cut down before they could get close enough to throw their homemade weapons. In the end, the ghetto was bombed and destroyed. Some of the surviving fighters managed to escape to the forests and join the partisans. The rest were rounded up and taken to death camps.
The Partisans
The partisans were irregular troops fighting the Nazi occupiers of their countries. There were Soviets and Yugoslavs, Albanians and Poles, Ukrainians and French, …show more content…
It is estimated that almost one million five hundred thousand Jews fought in the allied armies. Some three hundred thousand Jewish soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines died serving in the allied armies in World War Two; among them eleven thousand American Jewish soldiers.
Many Jewish scientists played decisive roles in developing the atom bomb; saving millions of Americans and allies from dying in a potential invasion of Japan. Twenty-nine hundred and fifty-six British Jewish servicemen and women were killed fighting in World War Two. More than seven hundred Jews from the Land of Israel died serving in the British Commonwealth Forces; there was a five thousand strong Jewish infantry brigade in the British army that fought in Italy in 1945. At least thirty-five Israeli generals served in this