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Born in the small town of Kamionka, Poland, on December 11, 1922, Frank Blaichman was 16 years old when the German army invaded the western and central parts of Poland in September 1939. The Blaichman family were among several hundred Jews living in the town. They were merchants; his grandmother owned a grocery store, and his father made a living buying grain from farmers in the area, selling it in nearby towns and in the city of Lublin. That was about to change.

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What was their motivation for resisting?

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What was their motivation for resisting?

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yes the holocaust was motivation of resisting

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The Act of Resistance (HOW): Notes, Details, Dates, Important Facts

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The Act of Resistance (HOW): Notes, Details, Dates, Important Facts

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Within months of the invasion, German officials issued a host of administrative decrees and regulations that were intended to isolate the Jews, deprive them of their livelihoods, and dispossess them of their property and force them to emigrate from the area, which was annexed to Germany. Jews were now required to wear armbands bearing the Star of David. They couldn’t travel outside Kamionka without special permits. They were ordered to turn over any valuables, such as gold and jewelry. Their businesses were confiscated. And they were subject to being captured at random for forced labor.

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Describe the Impact/Outcome (the result of their resistance)

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Describe the Impact/Outcome (the result of their resistance)

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Early in 1943, Frank’s unit grew to 60 members when they joined forces with refugees from the town of Markuszow. That spring the unit grew again when Frank met Samuel “Mietek” Gruber, who had escaped with 28 other men from a prisoner-of-war camp in Lublin. Gruber’s group had fought in the Polish army before being captured by the Germans; they had experience fighting and knew how to handle explosives. Known as the Markuszow group under the leadership of Iser Eisenberg, they were becoming a disciplined fighting force. The expanded unit hunted spies and collaborators in the area, disrupted communication by destroying telephone lines, damaged dairy factories that produced food for the Germans, and ambushed German patrols. By September 1943, the expanded unit began working with Armia Ludowa, a communist-led Polish partisan group. Armia Ludowa provided Frank’s unit with much-needed food and ammunition from their Soviet allies. Previously armed with old rifles and handguns, the group was able to obtain explosives, hand grenades, land mines, machine guns, submachine guns, mortars, anti-tank guns, and all the ammunition they needed. Just 21, Frank was the youngest platoon commander in the expanded unit and even was selected to escort the future prime minister of Poland to a secret meeting with Soviet high command.

“I’m very proud of what I did all those years,” he says. “The reality was we had nothing to lose, and our way to survive was to fight.”

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He fought his way out of it and made it home to his family.

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Blaichmans, Frank. Frank Blaichman’s Biography, facing history and ourselves. 2022,

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/resistance-during-holocaust/frank-blaichman-s-biography. Accessed 16 feb 2022.

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Multimedia Link (Relevant Song, Video, or Podcast): Say Anything

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Multimedia Link (Relevant Song, Video, or Podcast): Say Anything

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFR5s96jGeg

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Say Anything - Alive With The Glory Of Love

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Quotable Quotes, Survivor’s Story, and/or Link and Title of Informational Website:

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Quotable Quotes, Survivor’s Story, and/or Link and Title of Informational Website:

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:https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/resistance-during-holocaust/frank-blaichman-s-biography.