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 ...

[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 ...

as Jewish strength and resistance lies within Israel. BRITAIN’S CHIEF Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis attends a London march against the rise of antisemitism in the UK, in November 2023. In times like ...

In case of abuse, Report this post. A new and thoughtful documentary about Jewish resistance to Nazi oppression, Resistance: They Fought Back, will be broadcast on the PBS network on Monday ...

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 ...

The song is “Sunbeams,” a little-heard resistance song composed inside Auschwitz by the Polish Jewish prisoner Joseph Wulf. Though it is not sung out loud, the lyrics appear on the screen as ...

Apart from maybe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jewish resistance during the war generally isn’t well known. There were uprisings in other ghettos too. For example, in Białystok, Poland ...

During this, the week of International Holocaust Remembrance and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, PBS is making available Resistance: They Fought Back, a survey documentary of ...

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 ...

Paula Apsell knows the importance of capturing the stories of the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. The director worked for years on the documentary, “Resistance: They Fought Back.” ...