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These Dutch resistance members started off keeping Jews´ valuables safe. After many requests, these members were hiding more than 36 Jews in their house. They went as far as digging a tunnel from their house to the forest that was hundreds of yards away. This tunnel was easily hidden under the false bottom of a coal bin in their garden. They not only put themsleves in danger by hiding these Jews, but also put thier four children in danger.

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On July 20th, 1944 an assassination attempt was made on Hitler. It was put in a briefcase but it failed to kill Hitler. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, chief of the army reserve, was the one who was supposed to plant the bomb. The briefcase with the bomb was originally moved from where it had been planted. Hitler was injured so he had temporary paralysis in one arm but he was still very much alive.

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The Nazis would tell the Jews that they were going to a new life but they were actually heading to their death and were being put in a shower. They thought everything was okay but in reality they were being put in a gas chamber.  Below is a picture of a gas chamber.

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Gestapo was Hitler's secret army much like the U.S. president's secret service. They went around protecting Hitler and arresting and harming those who were rebelling against Hitler.

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Nazi resistance leaders arrested by Gestapo - 2/18/1943

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On this day in 1943, the leaders of an anti-Nazi German resistance movement are arrested by the Gestapo. A Youth Group comprised of German students formed the Weisse Rose or White Rose, with the goal of speaking out against Hitler and the Nazi regime.

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In the ghetto, more than 500,000 Polish Jews became sick because of the lack of food and the horrible living conditions. In response to this, people were sent in to give them vaccines so that the sickness would not spread outside of the ghetto. Many men and women that were giving the vaccines saw how badly the Nazis treated the Jews. Because of this they started sneaking in food and medicine which was a dangerous task because it was going against Hitler. But this didn´t stop these brave people. They started to sneak Jews out in their trucks to get them to safe places.

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In shortest terms... to save themselves. Hitler started a policy of "synchronization"  forcing organizations, political parties, and state governments into lines with Nazi goals and placing them under Nazi leadership. Everything began to go under Nazi control. Culture, the economy, education and law... all of these things went under Nazi control. Freedom wasn't an option. By mid-July 1933, the Nazi party was the only political party permitted in Germany. The Fuehrer's will became the foundation for government policy.

Hitler Youth was a huge part of compliance to Hitler. They were basically his "young army" of followers. A picture of them is below.

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From a letter by Holocaust survivor Rabbi Jacob G. Wiener:

Every teacher wanted to show that he was going along with the new regime.  All teachers had to join the Nazi party in which they were brainwashed to follow the antisemitic policy of the Nazi regime.(antisemitic: hate against Jews)

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Irena Sendler was young woman who rescued more thna 2,500 polish jewish children. She went into the ghettos originaly to give the jews vaccines for their sickness. They were told to do this so that they wouldn´t spread their sicknees outside of the ghetto. Once Irena saw how the Jews were treated, she knew she had to do something. She decided to give the children a chance at life and smuggle them out of the ghetto and into safety. She had many ways of doing this. She put babies in the back of the trucks leaving the ghetto. If the baby were to cry, they had a dog in the car to bark so that it would drown out the crying. Another way she would sneak the babies out was by putting them in carpenters toolboxes to cary out as if they were tools. In addition to that she would guide jewish children through the sewer tunnels to safety. Other times she told older children to act as a Catholic child and remember the lord´s prayer to escape with her. Not long after, she joined the Zegota group, a group to rescue and aid Jews, and continued sneaking outt Jewish children. She then found people to foster these children. Some children went to orphanages and other went to covanents. Irena kept records of the childrne and their parents so that would hopefully reunite them when they were free. She kept the records safe and even went to prison for not giving up information on Zegota. She made it out alive and ended up saving huge amounts of children.

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She was in hiding for 2 years and she wrote about her wishes and her dreams. She was only 15 when she was found and sent to a concentration. She died March 12, 1945.

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This video is in the point of view of a man who observed the ghetto on fire. He did not try to fight back but did not want to comply. His words truly show how horrible this event really was.

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The entire sky of Warsaw was red. Completely red. But the flames were so concentrated around the whole ghetto that it illuminate the whole city. The next week, the same week was Palm Sunday. I couldn't be anymore in the...in the...with my parents, in the hiding [place]. I walked out on that Palm Sunday and I went to Plac Krasinski where there was a church, a very old church, and I felt that my safest place is in the church. I went to that church and I attended the Mass and the priest spoke. Not a word was mentioned that across the street people are fighting, dying by the hundreds, and fire. I was just like a good Christian listening to the whole sermon. Then it is, uh, traditional in Poland that when the, after the services, the priest goes out in front of the church and he greets the parish...the people, probably is practiced here in every country the same way, but in Poland it is a traditional thing. And he greeted all the Poles and across the street was a carousel with a playground and the music was playing and the carousel was...the people took the children on the carousel, beautifully dressed. Sunday. Palm Sunday. And...uh...music was playing and I was standing in that group watching the other side of the block, of that burning ghetto. From time to time we heard screaming, "Look. Look. People are jumping from the roofs." Others will make remarks, uh, "Jews are frying." That's just a free translation from Polish. But I never heard any sympathy voices. Maybe there were people who looked in a different way, but I never heard it. And it was very heartbreaking for me that here I am, helpless, I can do nothing, and I gotta see and watch, and I cannot even protest, I cannot even show my anger. Sometimes I felt in tho...in there that I have to do something physically, even have to pay with my life, start screaming, but I didn't do it. I didn't scream. I didn't do anything. I just was hurt. But that scene will probably remain with me for all my life.

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Transcript The entire sky of Warsaw was red. Completely red. But the flames were so concentrated around the whole ghetto that it illuminate the whole city. The next week, the same week was Palm Sunday. I couldn't be anymore in the...in the...with my parents, in the hiding [place].

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Dietrich was a German theologian who opposed Nazi regime. He was executed in 1945 for pronouncing these beliefs. He was most well known for his verbal opposition to Hitler's beliefs on euthanasia and the genocidal persecution of Jews. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel prison for one and a half years. Later he was transferred to a Nazi concentration camp. After being accused of being associated with the plot to assassinate Hitler, he was quickly tried, along with other accused plotters, and then executed by hanging on April 9th , 1945 as the Nazi regime was collapsing.

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