Jewish resistance in Polish ghettos: A desperate cry for future generations
Ben Shapiro’s musical ‘We Will Rise’ on the Warsaw Ghetto and October 7th is set to open in Israel this week. A historian’s prelude, below, shows Jewish resistance in WWII in tragic perspective. Never again.
Warsaw Ghetto UprisingJNS, Wikimedia Commons
Before 1942, the Jewish underground in German-occupied Eastern Europe did not view armed resistance as an option according to historian Yisrael Gutman, who was a member of the Jewish Underground in the Warsaw ghetto and participated with the Jewish resistance in Auschwitz. The Nazis were viewed as a transitory evil. Until they were defeated, Jews in the Polish ghettos had to “play for time,” in order to maintain their community and ensure minimal harm.





