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The Holocaust: Jewish Resistance Groups and Leaders

Area of Activity Organization Leadership
Algeria José Aboulker Family José Aboulker
Auschwitz-Birkenau Resistance, Sonderkommando revolt Battle Group Auschwitz, Jewish Sonderkommandos
Balkans and Austria Jewish Parachutists Yishuv Jews
Bedzin Ghetto underground Jewish Youth Groups
Bialystok Ghetto Jewish Anti-Fascist Bloc Mordechai Tenenbaum
France Armée Juivee Abraham Polonski & Lucien Lublin
France Jewish Scout Movement Robert Gamzon
Germany Baum Group Herbert & Marianne Baum
Italy Jewish Brigades Yishuv Jews
Kovno/Kaunas Ghetto Jewish Fighting Organization Young Zionists and Anti-Fascist Struggle Organization
Kraków Resistance Zionist Youth Movements & Jewish Fighting Organization
Lida Ghetto Bielski partisans Bielski Brothers
Lvov Ghetto Resistance/underground Tadek Drotorski
Minsk Ghetto partisan Hersh Smolar
Minsk Ghetto partisan Kazinets a.k.a. “Slavek”
Mir Ghetto underground & revolt Shmuel Rufeisin
Novogrudok Ghetto Bielski partisans Bielski brothers
Riga Ghetto underground “Secret Cells”
Sobibór death camp Resistance & revolt Aleksandr Pechersky & Leon Feldhandler
Treblinka death camp Resistance & revolt Dr. Julian Chorazycki, Marceli Galewski, & Zelo Bloch
Vilna Ghetto partisans Yehiel Scheinbaum
Vilna Ghetto underground/United Partisan Organization Josef Glazman & Yitzhak Wittenberg
Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Fighting Organization Mordecai Anielewicz, Zivia Lubetkin, Yitzhak Zuckerman
Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Military Union (Zionist Revisionists) Pawel Frenkiel

Sources: The Holocaust Chronicle