Jewish Resistance

Jewish smugglers from the Warsaw ghetto wait for a delivery from the ‘Aryan’ side, c.1940-1943.

Courtesy of The Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.

Jewish smugglers from the Warsaw ghetto wait for a delivery from the ‘Aryan’ side, c.1940-1943.

Courtesy of The Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.

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This educational resource focuses on the variety of ways in which Jews resisted Nazi persecution during the Holocaust. It is expected that this educational resource would be used as part of a scheme of learning exploring Nazism and the Holocaust.

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All sources are courtesy of The Wiener Holocaust Library and can be reproduced for educational purposes only. The Wiener Holocaust Library should be acknowledged in all reproductions.

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Exploring Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust Worksheet and Activities

The Treblinka death camp uprising, 1943.

A portrait of Philipp Manes from the journal that Manes kept in the Theresienstadt ghetto.

In Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto in Lithuania, the Jewish community established schools. This photograph shows four students of a religious school, photographed by Zvi Kadushin (George Kadish) 1941-1943,

A musical evening in the Łódź ghetto, organised by the Jewish community, c1940-1943.

The first page of Rauchla Coperbac’s account of her work for the Belgium resistance movement, given to The Wiener Holocaust Library in 1956.

A report by Filip Müller, a Slovakian Jew who was incarcerated in Auschwitz, discussing a resistance network involving the Sonderkommando in that camp. In the report, Muller describes how the network was uncovered in 1944.

A map showing the battles in the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1943. It was published by the Yiddish Scientific Institute in 1944.

A map showing the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941-1942.

The diary of Ruth Wiener, c1943-1944. Ruth was imprisoned in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps with her mother and two sisters. She survived the war.

Jewish Lithuanian partisan group ‘The Avengers’ on their return to Vilna at the time of the liberation of the city by the Red Army, July 1944.