Akshar Tamhankar
Mrs. Chapley
8th Grade Advanced ELA
14 March 2023
Mordechai Anielewich
In the first month of the year 1943, a young man named Mordechai Anielewicz led an armed rebellion against the Nazi regime. In the chaos of the surprise deportations, Mordechai commanded a group of resistance fighters in a major street battle. Even before the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Mordechai was a major advocate for armed resistance. He transformed some youth groups into active armed resistance cells, and set up underground newspapers to report on the truth. He also started self defense organizations to teach people how to fight back against the Nazi regime. He had left the Warsaw Ghetto for the summer during the first mass deportations. When the young
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According to Michael Berenbaum, who is the director of the Sigi Ziering Institute, and was fact checked by Encyclopaedia Britannica, “...Anielewicz’s view prevailed, and the Jewish Fighting Organization (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ŻOB) was founded. Anielewicz was the obvious choice to command the ŻOB.” (Berenbaum, paragraph 3). There were many opportunities to save himself from an untimely fate. In a bold act of selflessness, he returned to the Warsaw Ghetto District to fight the invaders that have imposed their malevolent will on innocent people. He commanded them, and was successfully able to hold the Nazis back …show more content…
The man smiled, knowing that just a few more people would be spared the horrors of Nazi persecution. During the Holocaust, many oppressed people accepted their fate, and submitted themselves to Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Mordechai Anielwicz inspired the Polish underground to rebel, and many people see him as a symbol of courage and sacrifice. He proved to the world that even under intense oppression, people will stay strong. Even nowadays, people learn about this man and use his teaching to fight for their beliefs, though not with arms. Millions of people visit his memorial, and many thank him for what he
During the early through mid 1940s an event called the Holocaust would plague the European nation where a group of called the “Nazis” would imprison six million Jews, 5 million of them being prisoners of War (The National World War Two Museum). One prisoner named Elie Wiesel would recount his experience going through the Holocaust in his book “Night.” In this book he would show a general theme of Under the most horrifying circumstances, human beings will show tremendous strength, courage, and compassion. The first aspect that supports the theme is humans will show tremendous strength under the most horrifying circumstances.
400,000 Jews including Ben’s family were crammed into a little space known as the Warsaw ghetto. Over their time there Ben had learned tricks to sneak out of the ghetto to find food for his family. This amazing act of courage gave Ben enough bravery to fight against the Nazis
The article, “Teens against Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis explains the challenges that Ben Kamm, a partisan fighter, must go through while fighting off the Nazis. Ben, like the other millions of Jews, lived during one of the most devastating chapters of history, World War II. Ben and his family wanted to live freely without the Nazis. But Ben soon learned that he would become a partisan fighter and fight for the Jews. Ben survived the tragedies, but his family died the terrifying moments of the Holocaust. Even though Ben’s family did not survive the horrific regimes of Adolf Hitler, Ben showed an aments amount of courage through WWII.
Miranda Nichols Ms. Reyes English 1 6th period 10/20/14 An Annotated Bibliography http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/uprising1.html "Holocaust Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising." The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The Jewish in the Bialystok Ghetto used armed resistance. They used armed resistance to fight back at the Nazis for all the horrifying and traumatizing things they were doing to them. They fought for themselves and they fought for the other Jews too. The Nazis caused the Jewish people to suffer from starvation, sickness, and disease. They caused them to suffer in some of the most depressing ways, such as separating families and taking away every ounce of childhood and decency the families had left.
But a particular group would continue to resist in the shadows. One of these rebels was Sierakowiak, a young man who missed his old life and wanted to return to it more than anything ("Spiritual Resistance during the Holocaust"). Dawid Sierakowiak used unarmed resistance in the Łódź Ghetto to keep his life intact through the horrors of the Holocaust. In the Łódź Ghetto, unarmed
The Helmuth Huebener Group Hitler was an expert of deception. Most German citizens were left in the dark about the war for years due to the use of propaganda, although a few very brave Resistance fighters fought back to this propaganda. Through leaflets to lethal force, Resistance fighters continually tried to spread the truth about Hitler. Helmuth Hubener and his friends were very brave Resistance fighters who tried to expose Hitler’s propaganda. Hitler was able to deceive German citizens throughout the Holocaust; and even during the last few months of the Holocaust, many Germans still believed that Germany was winning the war.
The article Teens fighting against Hitler by Lauren Tarshis, describes a young boy fighting for his life during the holocaust. Ben want to live a normal life surrounded by this family and friends. But him and his family were taken because we were Jewish, to the ghetto. So Ben went out to fight with the partisans against the Nazis.
The article “Teens Against Hitler” by Lauren Tarshis shows the challenges of a Jewish family during World War 2 and how a young teenager rebelled against the Nazis and Hitler. In 1939 in the city of Warsaw Ben and his Jewish family were rounded up and forced into Warsaw’s ghetto. Later, Ben joined a partisan group and fought the Nazis and Hitler. This was a great act of courage but came at the price of his family’s life.
But some of them you be hunted down and shot as an example of what would happen to you if you tried to escape. Now, most escapes weren't successful, most of the times the jews revolting in the camps were simple mowed down at the guard's orders. Now, there were other forces outside of the camps that were more successful, called the underground
Back in World War II life was different for Jews. They had to deal with hatred from the Nazi Party. It took a lot of courage to stand up for what was right back in World War II. One person who had courage was Ben Kamm. “They blew up factories, sabotaged railroads, stole weapon shipments, and upset the flow of supplies to German troops.
Also, many prisoners escaped the camps and entered the woods where they would then try to enlist in Russian troops (“Jewish Resistance”). Other Jewish prisoners decided to initiate uprisings and revolts such as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Although armed resistance seemed like the only choice for Jews to resist, others decided to take a more peaceful route of resistance. These paths included the following: establishing underground networks that could bring supplies to the Jewish prisoners, protesting against the labor and starting work slowdowns, and they took a more spiritual resistance by continuing their religious practices like celebrating Hanukkah (Harran 492). Although these were very effective forms of resistance, there were even riskier forms of
Somehow, A-7713 survived, and when World War II ended, he put his pain and grief to work making sure the world did not forget the Holocaust and making sure another Holocaust did not take place. VI. Today the world knows A-7713 as Elie Wiesel, noted speaker and lecturer, author of more than 40 books, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal,
Vladka Meed participated in unarmed Jewish resistance to smuggle weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto. Vladka Meed was essential in the unarmed Jewish resistance against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto. She was involved in various underground organizations, including the Jewish Fighting Organization of ZOB, which was made in 1942 to resist Nazi deportations and fight for Jewish
During World War II, many people, especially Jews, felt the urge to resist the Nazis. But of course, resisting would inevitably lead to cruel punishment. Many jews in Warsaw, Poland decided to uprise, even though they knew that they would be overpowered by the German guards. In The Book Thief, Hans Hubermann decided to give bread to the struggling, old man in the Jewish “parade”, as seen in this quote: “Hans Hubermann held his hand out and