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Jewish resistance under Nazi rule took various forms of organized underground activities conducted against German occupation regimes in Europe by Jews during World War II. According to historian Yehuda Bauer , Jewish resistance was defined as actions that were taken against all laws and actions acted by Germans. [ 1 ]
From right: Małka Zdrojewicz, Bluma and Rachela Wyszogrodzka captured after offering armed resistance. Two Jewish underground organisations fought in the Warsaw Uprising: the left wing ŻOB founded in July 1942 by Zionist Jewish youth groups within the Warsaw Ghetto; [45] and the right wing ŻZW, or Jewish Military Union, a national ...
The Jewish Resistance Movement (Hebrew: תנועת המרי העברי, Tnu'at HaMeri Ha'Ivri, literally Hebrew Rebellion Movement), also called the United Resistance Movement (URM), was an alliance of the Zionist paramilitary organizations Haganah, Irgun and Lehi in the British Mandate of Palestine.
The Jewish Combat Organization (Polish: Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB; Yiddish: ייִדישע קאַמף אָרגאַניזאַציע Yidishe Kamf Organizatsie; often translated to English as the Jewish Fighting Organization) was a World War II resistance movement in occupied Poland, which was central in organizing and launching the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. [1]
Jewish partisans were fighters in irregular military groups participating in the Jewish resistance movement against Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. A number of Jewish partisan groups operated across Nazi-occupied Europe , some made up of a few escapees from the Jewish ghettos or concentration camps , while others, such ...
In most cities the Jewish underground resistance movements developed almost instantly, although ghettoization had severely limited their access to resources. [ 3 ] The ghetto fighters took up arms during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust known as Operation Reinhard (launched in 1942), against the Nazi plans to deport all prisoners – men ...
The Anielewicz Bunker (Polish: Bunkier Anielewicza), also known as the Anielewicz Mount (Polish: Kopiec Anielewicza) was the headquarters and hidden shelter of the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB), a Jewish resistance group in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland during the Nazi German occupation of World War II.
Żegota (pronounced [ʐɛˈɡɔta] ⓘ, full codename: the "Konrad Żegota Committee" [1] [2]) was the Polish Council to Aid Jews with the Government Delegation for Poland (Polish: Rada Pomocy Żydom przy Delegaturze Rządu RP na Kraj), an underground Polish resistance organization, and part of the Polish Underground State, active 1942–45 in German-occupied Poland. [3]