In World War 2 Jews were taken to concentration camps. These concentration camps had very poor living conditions and many died. Some of the Jews that were in these concentration camps managed to escape. They would flee to areas where they could hide, such as forests or underground. These people and groups were called partisans. A partisan is a person that was a part of a group that would fight against the opposing side. Jewish partisans would fight against the Nazis in the second world war.
20,000 to 30,000 Jews joined partisan resistance groups after they had escaped from camps. Jews were not the only ones that were part of these partisans, there were also many non-Jews. The Jews wanted to fight back after how they had been treated. The Jews became successful in fighting back because they knew the lay of the land that they where fighting in. The Nazis didn’t know the forest like the Jews did. Unlike the Germans, the Jews did not have many weapons or ammunition.
Even though they had escaped the Concentration camps, there were still many Jews that died due to the harsh living conditions in the forests. They had to live through storms, snow and freezing weather, and they did not have many medical supplies that they needed. The Jews would fight during the night because there wasn’t as much light, so they could camouflage. Many non-Jewish people helped the Jewish partisans greatly during the war. They would give the Jews food, information, and help them during the night when the Jews were fighting. Allies would also send items that the Jews needed with the help of parachutes.
Not all Jewish Partisans fought directly against the Nazis. Some helped preserve their Jewish cultures by using art performances, making poems, painting, teaching Hebrew, and more. Some of them even helped free prisoners, take children to safety, forge documents, and sabotage German weapons and products.
I think that being a partisan would be a very scary thing to do. These people were fighting against a group that had more weapons, more power, and more people. It was a very dangerous and courageous thing for these people to do.
Sources:
https://www.jewishpartisans.org/what-is-a-jewish-partisan
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jewish-partisan
Questions:
If you had the chance to leave a concentration camp and join a partisan would you?
Would you help Jews fight against the Nazis?
What would you do if you lived in a Jewish Partisan?
Replies
Great topic choice and super job Rebekah!!
I think that if I was given the chance I would chose to leave a concentration camp and join a partisan. I would do this because the concentration camps are just simply bad places to be with dirty environments and also posibly being beten every day.
Yes, I would leave the concentration camp to be a partisan, all of the camps and everything that happened with that was horrable. I would help the jews fight because its just wrong the way they were killed and hurt.
Yes, I would leave the concentration camo to be a partisan. The concentration camps were terrible in so many ways, so being out, even in the forest, would be better than in the concentration camp. I would help the Jews fight, because what the Nazis did was awful. As a Jewish partisan I would be very careful of the nazis, but would still fight against them.
I agree with you, being able to fight for what you believe, even when its hard, is better then the concentration camps.
I personally would move from a concentration camp to join partisan because it seems to be better than before. I would help the Jews with the Nazis because if we succeeded it would benefit thousands of people and would change many things.
I think I would leave and join a partisan because I think it would be terrible to live your life in the concentration camps. I would help the Jews fight against the Nazi's because their treatment was unfair and not right and they did not deserve it.
I agree, the Jews lived a terrible life in the camps, the Jews deserved all of the help that they could get.
I think I would join a partisan if I had the chance to leave a camp. I would help fight the Nazi's. If I lived in a Jewish Partisan I would probably be scared because the other group has more resources.
I think I would leave and join a partisan because it would be terrible to just stay in the concentration camps and live my life there. I would help the Jews fight against the Nazis because what they were doing was so horrible to the people. No one deserves to be treated how the Jews were treated.
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