Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America: New Aspects and Dilemmas

This text brings together eleven essays that analyze different aspects of resistance to the Holocaust, which took many forms: armed and passive resistance, uprisings in ghettos and concentration camps, partisan and underground movements, the rescue of Jews, spiritual resistance, and preservation of Jewish artifacts and memories.

Jewish resistance to the Holocaust faced numerous obstacles and difficulties.

In many cases, resistance fighters risked not only their own lives, but also the lives of others.

As such, there was a serious dilemma over whether to resist and over what methods of resistance should be used, because armed resistance could further harm the civilian population.

The effort to resist was not in vain, however, regardless of whether the resistance participants survived or perished.

To these fighters, resistance was seen as a moral victory over the Nazi regime.