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Resistance: They Fought Back
Jewish Partisans in the Forest
Many groups of Jews escaped the ghettos to fight in the forests, denying these territories to Germans and preserving them for Jews to escape and hide. One of those was the Bielski Brigade, which saved 1200 Jewish lives.
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During the Holocaust Jews did not go to their deaths as sheep to the slaughter; they fought back.