Prompt: How would you define resistance? How did Jews and non-Jews resist Nazi oppression? What do you think about their actions?
I would define resistance as not giving in, not to allow something, and not caving into (whatever it is) wants. Jews would resist Nazi oppression by hiding or giving the Nazis what they want, but mainly living their lives, and staying alive. In the Jewish Resistance reading, they said that if they were going to die, they wouldn’t go quietly, they’d take someone with them, as to resist, and fight back to the Nazis. The reading also said that it would have been better to die as if they had nothing to lose than to die scared, and at mercy to the Nazis. The Non-Jewish Partisans weren’t Jewish although they were guerrilla fighters that fought against the Nazis’ fascism in occupied territories. They killed Nazi collaborators, attacked German-held railroads, and they risked their lives in an effort to expel the Nazis from their country. They left their families to fight, thinking they’d come back home alive, and with that thought came resistance as well as everything else.
I think that all, both the Jewish and Non-Jewish people, were extremely brave to do what they did, whatever they could do, to try and rid of the “foreigners” of their country. Although, the Jewish people and the Non-Jewish Partisans had different reasons for resisting the Nazis, the Non-Jewish partisans fought to regain their country back, the Jewish people fought to live for their lives.
I agree, I think they were very brave to do what they did. I like that you said there were those fighting to regain their country. But there were also people fighting for the Jews. Good post.
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