Jewish Resistance To Ghettos

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A frightened little girl sat in her torn down apartment waiting for her brother to come back with food. The boy never showed up, then an announcement was made on the intercoms “all trains are now deporting”. The holocaust was a time when the nazi party intentionally killed Jews because they thought they were inferior and a disgrace to Germany. The Nazis set up concentration camps where the Jews would be sent and live under horrible conditions and be liquidated, Nazis also set up ghettos for Jews where they forced them to be so close together. In these ghettos Jews couldn't endure it any longer and some resisted in various ways. Jewish resistance did exist there was unarmed and armed resistance in the time during the holocaust. Armed resistance

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