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Anyone who paid attention in history class knows about the horrific crime against humanity committed by Adolf Hitler known as the Jewish Holocaust. But what they did not teach was that the Jews refused to go without a fight. In fact, the Jews resisted the Nazis on multiple occasions. Three common examples are the Buchenwald resistance group, The Warsaw uprising and the Bielski partisans. In each instance, the Jews gambled with their lives for their freedom. The first example of Jewish resistance took place in the concentration camp of Buchenwald. Concentration camps were constructed to work the life out of Jews, while simultaneously starving them to the point of death. Experiments were conducted on them and often times, they died.

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