But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead ...
During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary ...
A passion project, Paula Apsell’s “Resistance” is also a corrective to the long-held assumption that as Hitler’s Nazis swore ...
[Gunfire] ♪ Freund: This is perhaps the single most important site for the understanding of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. In the most improbable place at Auschwitz, the Sonderkommandos ...
Finding the stories of individual Jews who fought the Nazis publicly and at great peril helped a scholar see history ...
Paula Apsell knows the importance of capturing the stories of the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. The director worked ...
Why haven’t I ever heard of this amazing feat of escape? And why don’t I know about any form of Jewish resistance except the Warsaw Ghetto uprising?” This spurred Apsell to produce ...
The Bielski Partisans waged plenty of combat action against the Nazi scourge, much to the chagrin of the oppressors. January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and to commemorate that ...
The menorah. Image by They had been part of the Bielski partisans, Jewish resistance fighters who battled the Nazis in the forests of Western Belorussia — modern-day Belarus. They rescued Jews ...
Women played an outsized role in the Jewish resistance, risking their lives daily. Because men could so easily be identified as Jews, women played an outsized role in the Jewish resistance ...