But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead of submitting meekly to the jackboots. Among them were the heroes of the ...

During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary ...

As the sturdiest organization protecting Jewish life in Britain, the CST has strengthened greatly since that day, but this ...

A passion project, “Resistance” is also a corrective to the long-held assumption that as Hitler’s Nazis swore to erase the entire Jewish race, “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the ...

Jewish resistance Many of these pictures in this series show a large mixed-age group of men and women wearing the yellow star — the notorious Nazi-mandated sign for Jews — gathering outside with ...

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 ...

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 ...

few Jewish people understood that the German’s ultimate goal was the extermination of all the Jews of Europe. One of the first to understand that was the young resistance fighter (later poet ...

Though van de Perre is Jewish, the resistance had given her a false identity. Passing for Aryan was the only thing that kept her from the gas chamber. Van de Perre’s remarkable survival story is ...

(JTA) — Dozens of national Jewish groups, campus organizations and state legislators signed a letter demanding universities withdraw their schools’ recognition of and funding for Students for ...