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“Armed Resistance in the Ghettos and Camps”
Reading Questions
1. What factors led to the understanding among ghetto residents that death was certain?
After the rst wave of deportations, the ghetto inhabitants realized that
their value as labor would not guard them rom death. They then started
devising hiding places and continued the armed resistance, which caused
only a few thousand Jews to be seized.
2. How was the deportation of July 1942 a turning point? How did it change those who
remained in the ghetto?
The great deportation during this time caused 300,000 Jews to be sent
to Nazi camps. This spurred youth activists to ready various defenses
and resistance.
3. What was the significance of the Polish and Jewish flags being raised in the ghetto?
It could be seen outside of the ghetto walls, so the general public
wee inspired to also resist the Germans. Only after several days did
the ag
4. Where else did uprisings take place and what were the outcomes?
In three extermination camps, Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz-Birkenau, they
rose up against the Germans by either escaping or disrupting the process of
murder. This happened after their deaths became obvious. A few dozen people
were able to escape while most resistors died.
One hundred ghettos also created underground ghting organizations.