Resistance

Question 1

What did Jews often say when discussing resistance?

Answer 1

They talked about the chance to have a glorious death rather than going like sheep to the slaughter

Question 2

What was the assumption Jews made before taking part in armed resistance?

Answer 2

That there was no way they could survive

Question 3

Why did more Jews not choose armed resistance?

Answer 3

Armed resistance was almost a certain death sentence and most Jews refused to accept or did not know about the reality of the extermination camps

Question 4

Which Judenrat supported covert resistance?

Answer 4

Minsk

Question 5

What did they believe in the Łódź ghetto?

Answer 5

That work was their salvation and so they stamped out any kind of resistance

Question 6

What forms of resistance were there in the labour camps?

Answer 6

Sabotage and working slowly

Question 7

What was the biggest example of resistance?

Answer 7

The Warsaw ghetto uprising

Question 8

Who was the Warsaw ghetto uprising organised by?

Answer 8

Zionists and Bundists

Question 9

When were the first planned deportations from the Warsaw ghetto meant to take place?

Answer 9

July 22, 1942

Question 10

When was the Jewish fighting organisation formed in the Warsaw ghetto?

Answer 10

July 28, 1942

Question 11

Who was the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt commander?

Answer 11

Mordechai Anielwicz

Question 12

When did the Warsaw ghetto Jewish fighting organisation issue its call to resistance?

Answer 12

January 1943, “let everyone be ready to die like a man”

Question 13

When did the SS enter the Warsaw ghetto?

Answer 13

April 19, 1943 to clear out the remaining Jews

Question 14

How many men did the SS start out with to put down to Warsaw ghetto uprising?

Answer 14

850 men and 16 officers to fight 700-800 Jews

Question 15

How many men did the SS need to end the Warsaw ghetto uprising?

Answer 15

2,054 men and 16 officers

Question 16

When was the Warsaw ghetto uprising finally put down?

Answer 16

May 16, 1943

Question 17

How many Jews were captured at the end of the Warsaw ghetto uprising?

Answer 17

56,000 but 5,000-6,000 had been killed in explosions or fires

Question 18

In how many ghettos between 1941 and 1943 did resistance movements begin?

Answer 18

100

Question 19

When was there armed fighting in the Vilna ghetto?

Answer 19

September 1942

Question 20

When was there armed fighting in the Cracow ghetto?

Answer 20

December 1942

Question 21

When was there armed fighting in the Bedzin-Sosnowiec ghetto?

Answer 21

August 1943

Question 22

When was there armed fighting in the Bialystok ghetto?

Answer 22

September 1943

Question 23

What did the resistance in the Kovno ghetto do?

Answer 23

Tried to find escape routes rather than fighting

Question 24

Who was Dolek Liebeskind and what did he say?

Answer 24

He was the leader of the fighting organisation in the Cracow ghetto and in November 1942 he wrote that Jews were not fighting for survival but for their place in history

Question 25

Why were the Nazis wary of entering the forests of Eastern Europe?

Answer 25

They did not know the area or the layout and could easily have been ambushed

Question 26

From which camps were there attempted escapes?

Answer 26

Treblinka, Sobibor and Auschwitz-Birkenau

Question 27

When was the uprising in Treblinka?

Answer 27

August 2, 1943

Question 28

How many escaped from Treblinka and how many of those survived?

Answer 28

300 escaped but only 100 made it to the forest

Question 29

When was there an uprising at Sobibor?

Answer 29

October 14, 1943

Question 30

What happened after the Sobibor uprising?

Answer 30

The camp ceased to function and was liquidated

Question 31

How often was a German killed during the Sobibor uprising?

Answer 31

One German every 6 minutes on average

Question 32

How many escapees from Sobibor survived the war?

Answer 32

12

Question 33

When was there a revolt at Auschwitz-Birkenau?

Answer 33

October 7, 1944

Question 34

How many Germans did partisan groups in Lithuania kill?

Answer 34

About 3,000

Question 35

Why were the young and old a danger to partisan groups?

Answer 35

They made them less mobile and therefore more vulnerable

Question 36

Where was the Tuvia Bielski partisan family camp and how many of them survived the war?

Answer 36

It was in the forests of Belaruss and 1,236 people managed to survive the war

Question 37

What kind of Jews chose to resist?

Answer 37

Secular, leftist Jews and the Communist and Zionist youth groups

Question 38

How was cultural resistance a form of resistance?

Answer 38

The Nazis were trying to dehumanise the Jews so culture was a means of remaining human and therefore a means of resistance

Question 39

What is passive resistance?

Answer 39

Not changing your life as a response to the persecution

Question 40

What did Raul Hilberg argue about resistance?

Answer 40

That Jews had unlearned to resits after millennia of being repressed

Question 41

What did Hannah Arendt suggest about resistance groups?

Answer 41

That there were very small, very weak and essentially harmless

Question 42

What did Bruno Bettelheim argue about resistance?

Answer 42

That is was important that Jews marched themselves to their deaths rather than giving up life - the element of choice was important

Question 43

What did Yehuda Bauer argue about resistance?

Answer 43

That German rule in Poland was so brutal that had the Jews not offered any resistance at all they would have been eliminated much quicker

Question 44

What did Ruby Rohrlich argue about resistance?

Answer 44

That simply surviving can be considered a form of resistance to the German goal of Jewish extermination

Question 45

What did Goebbels say about the Warsaw ghetto uprising?

Answer 45

"The Jews have actually succeeded in putting the ghetto in a condition to defend itself."

Question 46

What different types of resistance are there?

Answer 46

Armed, spiritual, cultural, religious, mental, survival