The Teen Resistors by Joshua Owusu

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The White Rose

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One group, called the White Rose, was from the University of Munich, they secretly published, and distributed leaflets denouncing the Nazis, and recommended that Germans sabotage Nazi plans. They were the only organized group of Germans who resisted the Nazis.

Frank Blakhmen

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Frank Blakhmen was sixteen years old during World War II. He came from Kamlanka, Poland. He escaped before the Germans took the Jews into camps. He and twelve Jewish men dressed as Polish officers and got weapons from a farmer named Lemenchek. They got a total of six guns . They captured calibrators and used the information they got to blow up railroads and bridges to disrupt the German lines of communication.

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The Holocaust.

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The Holocaust is not very pleasant to talk about. The Nazis put the Jews in concentration camps and ghettos, and killed them in cruel ways. They led them to believe that they would be all right; they gave false hope to them right up to their deaths, which was either in the gas chamber or by the firing squad. The gas chambers were disguised as shower rooms, so that people would think all they were getting a shower. Even though the Nazis and their calibrators killed millions, nonetheless, some people did resist. They resisted in three different ways, armed, unarmed, and spiritual. Armed resistance was fighting the Nazis with weapons. Spiritual resistance was not letting the Nazis break you and your religious beliefs.
Resistance occurred wherever Nazis imposed their rule. In cities, ghettos, and camps, people risked all they had to resist. Not all the people who resisted were Jewish, some were French, Polish, British, American, Soviet, and even a handful of Germans. Resistors sabotaged supply trains, planned escapes for Jews, and gave other resistors supplies. Resistance fighters were called Partisans. They fought together against Nazi oppression.

Resistance Fighters in the Revolt.

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The Revolt

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For example, in September of 1942, by the time the first wave of deportations and deaths in the Warsaw Ghetto had stopped, hundreds and thousands of Jews were already dead, and only 60,000 remained in ghetto.

Image of Frank Blakhmen

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Vladka Meed

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One person in the resistance was Vladka Meed, she convinced non-Jews that she was not Jewish. Using false identification papers she smuggled weapons across the Warsaw Ghetto walls. She also smuggled people out of the ghetto and found places for them to hide.

Meed's false identification papers.

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Rosa Robota

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Another example of Jewish resistance was a teenager named Rosa Robota. She arrived at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in 1944. She helped plan a revolt in the camp. Rosa had the woman who worked in the munitions factory carry explosive powder out of the factory by scraping it under their fingernails. They gave the powder to a Russian prisoner named Borodin to construct a bomb. The Germans found out about their plans. The people got scared and set off the bombs that were hidden in the crematoriums. One of the crematoriums was blown up, during the commotion six hundred people escaped, but all were recaptured or killed. Rosa and three other young women were publicly hanged.

Eta Wrobel

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Eta Wrobel was born on December 28th, 1918 in Lukow, Poland. Born the daughter of a Polish underground, (A clandestine government formed in occupied Poland during World War II) she was taught the importance of helping people from a young age. She started her work in early 1940, where she began working as a clerk for an employment agency. She began resisting by forging false identity papers for Jews. Unfortunately, in October 1942, her ghetto was liquidated and the Jews were forced into concentration camps. However, during the transitions, Eta was able to escape with her father into the nearby woods. In the woods surrounding Lukow, Eta helped organize an all Jewish Partisan unit of nearly eighty people. The group had to do a multitude of things for survival, such as stealing. There was also a lack of medical supplies which was a big problem when Eta was injured from a gunshot wound. But despite all these hardships, she rose up to overcome them by persevering.

One Source Used

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Anflick, Charles. Resistance: Teen Partisans and Resistors Who Fought Nazi Tyranny . New York: Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 1999.

Another source used was: https://www.jewishpartisans.org/partisans/eta-wrobel

Second Source Used

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https://www.loeser.us/examples/resistance.html

Hannie Schaft

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Jannetje Johanna (Jo) Schaft was born on September 16, 1920. She was a Dutch resistance fighter known as "the girl with the red hair". She often went by her code name Hannie. Hannie was born in Haarlem, the capital province of Holland. From a very young age, she discussed politics and issues of justice with her family. This encouraged her to pursue law and become a lawyer. After high school she went on to study at the University of Amsterdam where she became friends with Jewish students. This made her feel strongly about actions against Jews. Hannie started out small, she stole ID cards for Jewish residents. In addition she was responsible for sabotaging and assassinating various targets.