Question for Nov 20

There are many ways the Jews tried to resist the Nazi genocide. Ways which Jews tried to resist include emigration, spiritual resistance and armed struggle. Parents did their best to save their children by sending them to non-Jews to care for them. The children from the Reich were transported by the Kindertransport to England. Furthermore, Emanuel Ringelblum started a secret operation, called Oyneg Shabbes.  Its aim was to collect documents of ghetto life of the Jews of Poland. Writers, journalists, teachers, rabbis, social scientists and historians helped by doing tasks such as writing papers, gathering documents and photographs, commissioned photos and papers from children. From the information documented by the Oyneg Shabbes, it has been found that the individuals in the ghetto camps survived longer because the children smuggled food; artists, musicians, poets and painters still attempted to continue doing their work; there was still an operating Jewish High School in the Warsaw ghetto between 1940 and 1942. Additionally, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a prominent case of Jewish armed resistance. The Jewish Fighting Organization was created and was led by Mordechai Anielewicz. They fought the Germans for, three weeks, with pistols and Molotov cocktails. It ended when Anielewicz was killed and General Jürgen Stroop destroyed Warsaw’s Great Temple, as a way to point out his victory. Overall, Jewish resistance did not change the situation of the Jews.