The priority for Jewish people in the Diaspora should be strength and formidability, mental and physical – and to deeply ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Geneva and Paris, the World Jewish Congress collaborated with the Permanent Delegations to UNESCO of France, Germany, and the United States, as well as the UN Permanent Missions in Geneva, to host ...

With a Jewish community that had been flourishing ... Brantsovsky recalled hearing of a resistance movement forming in the ghetto and quickly requested to join. “The underground organization ...