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As tonight marks the beginning of Yom HaShoah, I want to make a thread appreciating what I call the two main types of Jewish resistance that occurred during The Shoah:
Religious/cultural resistance, and physical resistance.
As tonight marks the beginning of Yom HaShoah, I want to make a thread appreciating what I call the two main types of Jewish resistance that occurred during The Shoah:
Religious/cultural resistance, and physical resistance.
Religious/cultural resistance would be resistance along the lines of, not giving up your Jewish identity, even though you are being targeted for it.
Physical resistance would be directly fighting back, such as joining an underground movement or partisan group.
Physical resistance would be directly fighting back, such as joining an underground movement or partisan group.
I found a lot of pictures of both kinds of resistance from Yad Vashem, and I want to share them here, in honor of all the victims.
For each tweet, I will put one picture of religious/cultural resistance on the left, and physical resistance on the right.
For each tweet, I will put one picture of religious/cultural resistance on the left, and physical resistance on the right.
left, religious/cultural resistance: westerbork, holland. lighting of hanukkah candles in westerbork transit camp.
right. 1942.
right, physical resistance: rab island, yugoslavia. the rab battalion, a unit of jewish fighters, established after the liberation of the island. 1943.
right. 1942.
right, physical resistance: rab island, yugoslavia. the rab battalion, a unit of jewish fighters, established after the liberation of the island. 1943.
left, religious/cultural resistance: lodz, poland. simchat torah in the ghetto. (date unknown)
right, physical resistance: lublin, poland. jewish partisans in the woods. 1943.
right, physical resistance: lublin, poland. jewish partisans in the woods. 1943.
left, religious/cultural resistance: krakow, poland. scorched books and torah scrolls being collected by jews in a burnt-out synagogue in the ghetto. (date unknown).
right, physical resistance: warsaw, poland. nazis guarding jews caught with weapons during the uprising. 1943.
right, physical resistance: warsaw, poland. nazis guarding jews caught with weapons during the uprising. 1943.
left, religious/cultural resistance: warsaw, poland. passover seder in the ghetto. 1941.
right, physical resistance: saloniki, greece. members of a jewish underground resistance group. (date unknown)
right, physical resistance: saloniki, greece. members of a jewish underground resistance group. (date unknown)
left, religious/cultural resistance: lodz, poland. torah scrolls brought to the ghetto from surrounding towns after their jews had been deported. (date unknown).
physical resistance: kaunas, lithuania. two jewish partisans in an underground hideout in the city. (date unknown)
physical resistance: kaunas, lithuania. two jewish partisans in an underground hideout in the city. (date unknown)
left, religious/cultural resistance: warsaw ghetto, poland. jews sitting together for a meal in a homeless shelter converted into a synagogue. (date unknown)
right, physical resistance: castres, france. liberation of the city by the jewish underground movement, maquis. (1944).
right, physical resistance: castres, france. liberation of the city by the jewish underground movement, maquis. (1944).
left, religious/cultural resistance: bucharest, romania. bar mitzvah at an orphanage. (1944).
right, physical resistance: minsk, belorussia. 3 partisans being led to a public hanging, partisan holding the sign is Jewish (says "we are partisans & killed german soldiers"). (1941).
right, physical resistance: minsk, belorussia. 3 partisans being led to a public hanging, partisan holding the sign is Jewish (says "we are partisans & killed german soldiers"). (1941).
left, religious/cultural resistance: hamburg, germany. issac frank, passenger on board the MS St. Louis studying Torah. (5/13/1939)
right, physical resistance: poland. jewish partisans in a forest hideout. (1944).
right, physical resistance: poland. jewish partisans in a forest hideout. (1944).
left, religious/cultural resistance: russia. jews who escaped from poland to russia, making matzot for passover. (1943).
right, physical resistance: vilnius, lithuania. jewish partisans entering the liberated city. (1944).
right, physical resistance: vilnius, lithuania. jewish partisans entering the liberated city. (1944).
left, religious/cultural resistance: lodz, poland. children secretly studying torah in the ghetto. (date unknown).
right, physical resistance: vilna, lithuania. chana eezbat, the partisan doctor. (date unknown).
right, physical resistance: vilna, lithuania. chana eezbat, the partisan doctor. (date unknown).
left, religious/cultural resistance: lodz, poland. dedication of a torah scroll in the ghetto. (est. 1943-44).
right, physical resistance: naliboki forest, poland. partisans who escaped the mir ghetto and guarded the airfield in the forest. (1944).
right, physical resistance: naliboki forest, poland. partisans who escaped the mir ghetto and guarded the airfield in the forest. (1944).
left, religious/cultural resistance: bergen-belsen, germany. the first prayer after liberation, in the displaced persons camp. (1945).
right, physical resistance: belgium. jewish underground fighters on their way to visit the graves of their fighters who were executed. (1944).
right, physical resistance: belgium. jewish underground fighters on their way to visit the graves of their fighters who were executed. (1944).
