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During the Holocaust Jews did not go to their deaths as sheep to the slaughter; they fought back.
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Women played an outsized role in the Jewish resistance, risking their lives daily.
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Few Jews had access to weapons in the Warsaw Ghetto, but they resisted nonetheless.
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Kovner wrote a Manifesto, the first published call for Jews to fight back.
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Even in Nazi death camps, Jews rebelled.
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Children were among the most tragic victims in the Holocaust.
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans.
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Many groups of Jews escaped the ghettos to fight in the forests, denying these areas to Germans.