HOW DID THE JEWS RESPOND TO THE HOLOCAUST?
For European Jews, life was a ceaseless confrontation with death. Coping with this required unflagging resourcefulness and heroic reserves of spiritual resistance. Most Jews responded to the onslaught by persistently “choosing life,” struggling to stay alive and to keep their loved ones alive. Even in the worst circumstances, they never let go of their faith, hope, values and ideals, remaining determined to bear witness for the sake of the world and future generations. Some chose armed resistance, organizing revolts in ghettos, concentration camps, and even in the death camps, and forming Jewish partisan units in the forests. Although they were a small minority, the fact that they existed at all is remarkable.
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