The Resistance, Rescuers, and the Righteous of the

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The Resistance, Rescuers, and the Righteous of
the Holocaust.

• To Save one life is as if you have saved the
  world
• By Steph Ekeren,
• Amanda Pokorny,
• And
• Emily Sherman

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Resistance

• Armed Resistance
• Unarmed Resistance
• Jewish Resistance

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Armed Resistance

• At Terblinka, an underground organization plotted
  an armed rebellion and mass escape. The
  underground fighters put their plan into action
  to steal arms from the warehouse eliminate the
  German and Ukrainian guards on duty set the camp
  on fire destroy the extermination area and then
  help the remaining prisoners escape to the
  forest. As many as 200 prisoners escaped to the
  neighboring forest, and about of those men
  survived German efforts to recapture them.
• Leon Feldhendler formed an organization at
  Sobibor. Resisters would lure SS officers into
  storehouses on the pretest that they were to
  receive new coats and boots. Once inside,
  prisoners would attack them with axes and knives.
  The prisoners would then seize Nazi weapons and
  ammunition and set the camp ablaze during roll
  call. The insurgents would then break open to
  run across the German mine fields toward the
  forest.
• One of the four crematoria's at Auschwitz was
  blown up by Sonderkommandos. These were workers,
  mostly Jews, whose job it was to clear away the
  bodies of gas chamber victims. All workers were
  caught and killed.

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Unarmed Resistance

• Many resistance activities in concentration camps
  centered on attempts organized by the underground
  to alleviate the day-to-day suffering of the camp
  inmates. These included gathering food, money,
  and medical supplies for those in need.
• Members of the Polish resistance movement in
  Auschwitz secretly contacted the Polish
  underground in nearby Cracow about the lack of
  medical supplies in the camp. The Auschwitz
  underground sought to steal medical supplies from
  warehouses that also helped victims belongings.
  A group of Poles who worked for the underground
  in the clinic, near the main camp at Auschwitz,
  organized an operation to smuggle medicine into
  the concentration camp.

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Jewish Resistance

• The Jewish Fighter Organization let an armed
  revolt for a month using weapons smuggled into
  the ghetto. The Nazi responded by bringing in
  tanks and machine guns, burning blocks of
  buildings, destroying the ghetto, and ultimately
  killing many of the last , Jewish ghetto
  residents.
• Uprisings took place in Vila and Bialystok and in
  a number of other ghettos. Many but a few could
  not save the Jewish masses from destruction. But
  they fought for the sake of Jewish honor and to
  avenge the Nazi slaughter of so many Jews.

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Righteous Gentiles

• Raoul Wallenberg Swedish diplomat, who made it
  a special, personal mission to help save the Jews
  of Hungary. He set up safe houses, distributed
  food and medical supplies, and virtually
  single-handedly set up a burearcracy in Budapest,
  which was designed to protect Jews. More than
  90,000 Budapest Jews were deported to the death
  camps and murdered, and Wallenbergs efforts may
  have reduced the number of those murdered by half

• Dr. Jan Karski contacted between Polish
  resistance and Polish government in exile. He
  was smuggled into the Warsaw ghetto to hear what
  was occurring there. Asked to tell the story to
  the rest of the world, he reported on his
  experience to other world leaders.
• Wladyslaw Bartoszewski The founder of the
  Polish resistance who organized an underground
  organization, which consisted mostly of Catholics
  saving Jews. He helped found an organization
  (Council for Aid to Jews) which saved many Jews
  from the has chambers.

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More Righteous Gentiles

• Oskar Schindler has been described as a
  cynical, greedy exploiter of slave workers during
  the second would war, a black-marketeer, gambler,
  member of the Nazi party eternally on the lookout
  for profit, alcoholic playboy and shameless
  womanizer of the worst sort. He made a fortune
  using Jewish slave labor. He ended up spending
  his fortune and risking his life to save his
  1,200 Schindler Jews from Hitlers death camps.
• Pastor Trocme The religious leader of the
  Huguenot village of LeChambon-sur-Lighon, France,
  which hid and saved 5,000 Jews.

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Rescuers

• Joseph Andre was a Belgian abbot who helped
  rescue hundreds of Jewish children and encouraged
  them to remain in the Jewish faith.
• Bert Bochove He and his wife Annie saved the
  lives of many Jews in Holland during the war.
• Jean Deffaugt Mayor of a French town on the
  Swiss border, aided Jews caught crossing the
  border.
• Franciska Halamajowa Hid Jews in her hayloft
  and cellar.

• Miep Gies Was on of those who attempted to hide
  Anne Frank and her family.
• Marian Halicki Hid a group of Jews in his
  workroom.
• Paul Gruninger was a Swiss official who
  disobeyed his government by allowing some 3,600
  Jews to cross illegally into Switzerland.
• The Gorniak Family Hid Jews in their hayloft.

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Yad Vashem

• There is a museum in Israel, called Yad Vashem,
  devoted exclusively to the history of the
  Holocaust. The walkway which terminates at the
  museum entrance is lined with carob trees, each
  dedicated to the memory of a Righteous
  Gentile, there are more than 600 of these trees.
  Those who are added to the list receive a
  certificate and medal (or the presentation is
  made to that persons representative) with the
  Talmundic inscription whoever saves a single
  soul, it is as if he had saved the entire world.
  A tree is then planted on the walkway, marked by
  a plaque bearing the name and nationality of the
  Righteous Gentiles.

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