We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resist | dG1fTEplSWFnd2ExbWM
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00:00You have a contradiction between what people thought and what actually happened.
00:19People have this myth stuck in their heads that the Jews went to their deaths like sheep
00:25to the slaughter.
00:28This is where the real story begins.
00:37I can't say that the Jews were silent, that's absolute nonsense.
00:41The Jews were armed, they were ready to resist.
00:45We were happy because we were free and we were fighting back.
00:48It's hard to excavate, but we are sure there are weapons still in these places.
00:54It took so much courage, unbelievable courage.
00:58The prisoners were able to collect a number of knives and very primitive grenades.
01:04I'm not yielding to the situation.
01:06Whatever you do that is against the situation is resistance.
01:11This is perhaps the single most important site for the understanding of Jewish resistance
01:17during the Holocaust.
01:19The teachers that stayed with their students, the doctors that stayed with their patients,
01:23did they go like sheep to the slaughter or did they take care of those they were responsible
01:28to unto their last breath?
01:32So this is a story that gives you power to live.
01:40Jews did not go as sheep to the slaughter, they fought back.
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