How did Jews resist the Nazis?

Question 1

‘Amidah’:

Answer 1

Hebrew word that literally translates to ‘standing up against’

Question 2

Survivors of the Sobibòr Uprising: Where and what is Sobibòr?

Answer 2

• Sobibòr extermination camp
• remote area of Poland where few people lived
• surrounded by forests and swamps
• mines planted around the camp

Question 3

Survivors of the Sobibòr Uprising: How did Jews in the Sobibòr camp resist agains the Nazis?

Answer 3

• May 1943 - Sept 1943
  
  • at least 17,000 Jews were murdered
  • almost all the people sent to Sobibòr were killed immediately
  • small no. (approx. 700) selected to work disposing bodies or sorting property stolen from victims
• 14th October 1943
  
  • prisoners rebelled
  • killed 20 SS men and Ukrainian guards
  • approx. 300 prisoners able to escape but most caught and killed soon after
  • 50-70 survived at end of war

Question 4

Survivors of the Sobibòr Uprising: Difficulties with the Sobibòr Uprising:

Answer 4

• very remote so hard to smuggle weapons

- small numbers so hard to use sheer force

Question 5

Survivors of the Sobibòr Uprising: Was the Sobibòr Uprising a failure?

Answer 5

not a failure as some escaped representing strength

Question 6

Jewish Partisians in Vilna: How did Jewish Partisians in Vilna resist agains the Nazis?

Answer 6

• some Jews didn’t resist due to situation
• armed resistance increased 1942-43 as they realised they were going to be sent to extermination camps so they wanted to fight also only fit, healthy, mentally strong ppl stayed in ghettos, rest sent to concentration camps