Did Jews Fight Back Against the Nazis?

By the 1930’s, Jewish life had existed in Europe for over 2,000 years. Despite facing expulsion, persecution, and antisemitic rhetoric, Jews survived, sometimes through bribery for security or relocation to “safer” parts of Europe.

While this survival tactic served them for centuries, the Nazis rise to power was swift and calculated. Though historians who study this time period can theorize about where and how the tragic death of six million Jews could have occurred, hindsight is 20/20.

What the Jews of Europe endured was beyond their control. The reality is that there was nowhere to go, and escape was nearly impossible. With surrounding countries and borders closed to Jews, the pre-World War II European Jewish community of approximately nine million had only a tiny number of survivors to carry on Jewish tradition and continuity into the next generation.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:08 History of Antisemitism in Europe
01:44 Jewish survival strategies
02:09 Failed attempts to flee Nazi Germany
03:07 Nazi antisemitic propaganda
03:20 Nazi euphemisms for genocide
04:37 Jewish resistance and Nazi collective punishment
06:00 Legends of Jewish bravery and partisan revolts
07:08 The Warsaw ghetto uprising
08:20 The Bielsky brothers and the Jewish partisan forest community
09:41 Belief in a future as the ultimate act of defiance
10:21 Jewish resistance across Europe
12:31 The strength of Jewish identity
13:10 The creation of the Jewish state
14:23 Outro

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