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People have a myth stuck in their heads that during the Holocaust, Jews went to their deaths “like sheep to the slaughter.” But this is where the real story begins. Jews did not go as sheep to the slaughter. They fought back.

Many groups of Jews escaped the ghettos to fight in the forests, denying these areas to Germans.
During the Holocaust Jews did not go to their deaths as sheep to the slaughter; they fought back.
Even in Nazi death camps, Jews rebelled.
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Few Jews had access to weapons in the Warsaw Ghetto, but they resisted nonetheless.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans.
Kovner wrote a Manifesto, the first published call for Jews to fight back.
Women played an outsized role in the Jewish resistance, risking their lives daily.
Children were among the most tragic victims in the Holocaust.