Jewish Resistance Flashcards

1
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When was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?

A

1943

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What triggered the Warsaw Uprising?

A

People started realising that they were being deported to go and die so they started to form a resistance group called ‘Jewish Fighting Organisation’ which smuggled firearms and homemade weapons.

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Who was the leader of the Jewish Fighting Organisation?

A

Mordechai Anielewicz

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4
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What is a partisan?

A

A member of an armed group formed to fight secretly against an occupying force

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What did the Nazi’s do in retaliation of the Warsaw Uprising?

A

Used flamethrowers to kill everybody barricaded inside houses. 7,000 killed including Mordechai Anielewicz, the rest were deported to concentration camps.

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What was the effect of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?

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Inspired other groups to retaliate against the Nazi’s

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What did the Sonderkommando do in retaliation against the Nazi’s?

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They fought back and one time killed 3 guards and blew up a crematorium, several hundred escaped. Another time they killed 11 Nazi’s and 50 escaped.

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8
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How many Jews were Partisans?

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30,000

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