Friday, April 26, 2013

Jews and non-Jews resistance against Nazis


How would you define resistance? How did Jews and non-Jews resist Nazis oppression? What do you think about their actions?

How I define resistance is people being up standers and fighting against somebody that is trying to force them to do something that they don’t want to do. They stand up for what they believe in and “break” the rules that were given to them and risk themselves getting caught to help others. How the Jews resist Nazis oppression is that when Nazis told the Jews not to pray they did it anyways. When they were told not to go to school they still went or they made their own schools wherever they lived and taught. When they were told not to go out of the Ghettos they still did it and got food or supplies that they needed, etc. How the non-Jews resisted Nazis oppression is that they hid Jews so that they wouldn’t be caught and sent to a death camp, they would help out Jews and give them the supplies that they needed to survive, they would fight against the Nazis so that their Jewish friends would be safe.  An example of somebody that hid Jews was Marion Pritchard she hid a Jewish man and three children. And one day when a Dutch Nazi came to see if there was any Jews hiding she hid them all under her floorboards of her house. The Dutch Nazi left and returned later on and found the Jews sleeping so Marion grabbed a gun and killed the Dutch Nazi to save the children and father. I think that their actions were very brave. I think that if you were non-Jewish and you were fighting against the Nazis so that you can save a friend you were a true, brave friend. And if you were a Jew and you were doing things that the Nazis told you not to do you were also brave. You were brave enough to break the rules even though that meant that if you were caught you could be killed. In conclusion I  think that people who fought against the Nazis and stood up for what they believed in were strong, brave, and heroes.

1 comment:

  1. I agree on how you defined resistance. I like how you explained all their consequences the non-Jewish will have for helping the Jewish. These non-Jewish people risked their whole life for the Jewish, knowing that if they get caught they will be killed. The example of Marion Pritchard helped a father and his three kids,shows how people broke the rules for other people. Back then in that time period a lot of non-Jewish risked their lives for thousands of Jewish people. They hid them in the attic, under the house, or any where they could sleep. You went into really good description and had a lot of details of the whole situation and the consequences and the good things. Not many people are like that today, most people only care about themselves. That's why is so amazing how the non-Jewish would do that.

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