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