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The Florida Holocaust Museum: History, Heritage and Hope Permanent Exhibition

Resistance: Fighting Back

Resistance and Partisans

Resistance to the Third Reich occurred all over Europe during World War II and the Holocaust. Small acts of individual resistance, national resistance movements, and Jewish partisans all sought to contribute to the defeat of the Nazi regime. Resistance took a variety of forms, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation, and propaganda, to smuggling food, hiding crashed pilots, uprisings, and outright warfare. In many parts of Europe, Jewish guerrilla fighters, or partisans, engaged in anti-Nazi sabotage, insurgencies, attacks, and assassinations of Nazi personnel.

Fight for your lives until your last breath! With tooth and nail, with axes and knives, with acid and iron we will greet our hangmen. Let the enemy pay for blood with blood!

THEIR DEATH FOR OUR DEATH!

- Appeal from the Bialystok Ghetto Resistance Organization, August 15, 1943

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6. Boxcar ring
13. Warsaw residents read German leaflet In spite of extreme terror, Poland had one of the largest underground resistance movements in Europe, which actively opposed the Nazis throughout the war. Its largest operation was the Warsaw Uprising (Aug. 1, 1944 - Oct. 2, 1944), which was quashed by the Germans after 63 days of fighting. Over 180,000 civilians and over 18,000 insurgents were killed. Surviving residents of Warsaw were forced to leave the city and sent to labor and concentration camps. In the picture: a group of residents read a German leaflet.
15. Warsaw ghetto health care

Resistance and Partisans

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