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RESISTANCE

Smuggling Teach in secret Forge documents Physically fight Rebel Rescue or hide someone or something Acts of sabotage Prayer

Newspapers Radios Schools Documenting events


Photos Diaries

Power of German regime Collective responsibility

Isolation of Jews Lack of weapons Secrecy and deception of deportations

GHETTO UPRISINGS Warsaw (April 19 - May 16, 1943)


Mordecai Anielwiecz -leader

Vilna (January 1, 1942)

Lachva (August 3, 1942)

Sobibor Escape (October 14, 1943)

Treblinka (August 2, 1943) Auschwitz (October 7, 1944) Ava Gertner

Underground units formed to help defeat the Nazis operated mainly in the forests and sometimes the cities.

Disorganized Limited to forging and printing

Secretly monitored foreign radio broadcasts

Smuggled arms & ammunition Hit and run tactics Killed isolated groups of soldiers Punished collaborators

Polish Partisans over 300 groups Soviet Partisans largest group Jewish Partisans in Eastern Europe small

Jewish Partisans in Western Europe - small

20,000 30,000 members Not welcomed by other partisans Established family camps Rescued as well as fought Bielski Partisans largest group of armed rescuers Defiance movie about the group

Operated in mountains and cities Largest group in France

Gypsies also participated

The Danish People

Jehovahs Witnesses The White Rose

ETHICS: refers to standards of conduct that indicate how one should behave derived from principles of right and wrong.

1. Ability to discern right from wrong

2. Commitment to do what is right, good, and proper

Establishes minimal standards of ethical behavior


Ex: honesty, fairness, respect

Obliges us to act ethically

Goes beyond moral duty Moral excellence or conduct


Ex: generosity, bravery

May involve personal risk Not ethically mandatory its an ideal

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