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Contrary to the myth of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust, discover “Resistance: They Fought Back” – Jan. 27 at 10 pm


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Resistance: They Fought Back

Monday, January 27 at 10:00 pm

 

A dozen Jewish peeple wearing Star of David badges in the Lodz Ghetto, Poland, 1940-1944. Artist: Unknown Credit: Getty Images
Jewish people wearing Star of David badges, Lodz Ghetto, Poland, 1940-1944. Artist: Unknown
Credit: Getty Images

We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Instead, it’s widely believed “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter.”

Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the U.S., Resistance – They Fought Back provides a much-needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity.

There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps, and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests. Everywhere in Eastern Europe, Jews waged campaigns of non-violent resistance against the Nazis.