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Jewish participation in the German resistance was largely confined to the underground activities of left-wing Zionist groups such as Werkleute, Hashomer Hatzair, and Habonim, as well as the German Social Democrats, Communists, and independent left-wing groups such as New Beginning. While much of the non-left-wing and non-Jewish opposition to ...
Jewish partisans were fighters in irregular military groups participating in the Jewish resistance movement against Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. A number of Jewish partisan groups operated across Nazi-occupied Europe , some made up of a few escapees from the Jewish ghettos or concentration camps , while others, such ...
Volkssturm – a German resistance group and militia created by the NSDAP near the end of World War II; Werwolf – Nazi German resistance movement against the Allied occupation; Greek Resistance. List of Greek Resistance organizations; Cretan resistance; National Liberation Front (EAM) and the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), EAM's ...
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising [a] was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps.
Informers were fought by the Jewish resistance, and by the Polish resistance if their activities harmed the Polish underground. [12] The "Group 13" from the Warsaw ghetto, led by Abraham Gancwajch, was the only organized group of Jewish collaboraters with the Germans on the basis of ideology. [13] The Nazis also used agents who were Jewish to ...
The Group 13 network (Polish: Trzynastka, Yiddish: דאָס דרײַצענטל) was a Jewish collaborationist organization in the Warsaw Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. The rise and fall of the Group was likely a proxy for power struggles between various factions in the German military and bureaucracy, for their ...
Herbert and Marianne Baum before they married. The Baum Group was founded by Herbert Baum in 1936, 1937 or 1938 depending on the source. [3] Herbert Baum was active in the Communist Youth Federation (KJVD), but was pushed out of mainstream Communist organizations including the Communist Party of Germany because he was Jewish.
In 1943, the General Jewish Fighting Organization (Yidishe Algemeyne Kamfs Organizatsye) was established, uniting the major resistance groups in the ghetto. Under this organization's direction, some 300 ghetto fighters escaped from the Kovno ghetto to join Jewish partisan groups. About 70 died in action. The Jewish council in Kovno actively ...