Uprisings

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 * The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the most famous attempts of Jewish**
 * resistance in Germany.**

Throughout most ghettos in Nazi Europe, Many Jews tried to organize resistance groups against the Nazis. Tools used for these restistince included smuggled or homemade weapons. From 1941 to 1943, more than 100 Jewish resistance groups fought for freedom.

April 19, 1943, the day of deportation for Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, was also the same day the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising started.

Ghetto uprisings did not only destruct human lives, but also the enviroment in which was around them.

Marek Edelman, the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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Religious Figure. Ukranian Orthodox Priest who lost his life trying to save Jews during World War II. He was the Parish Priest in the town of Peremyshliany in Western Ukraine when the Nazis invaded the area in 1941.

Quotes: I understand that you are trying to get me released. But I beg you not to do this.Yesterday they killed fifty people. If I am not here, who will help them to get through these sufferings?



Jaap Penraat, an architect and industrial designer who saved 406 Jews in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands by f orging false documents and taking them to safety

Quotes:"You do these things because in your mind there is no other way of doing it,"