Holocaust ResistanceDuring the duration of the Holocaust, millions of Jews and other minorities found themselves at the mercy of Nazi commands. Despite the threat of death hanging over their heads, the Jews organized resistance groups and fought their oppressors. Resistance took all kinds of forms, from suicide and dying with dignity to repression and murder of their captors (“Jewish Resistance to Nazi Genocide”). In the camps there were individuals who openly fought against the Germans, for example Meir Berliner, who killed an SS soldier with only a knife as a weapon ("Acts of Resistance"). However, the murder of a German soldier led to the death of over a hundred Jews in retaliation and individual rebellions are therefore not favored for us. (“Acts of Resistance”). Instead, small groups formed in captivity and developed escape plans. These groups revolted silently but fiercely; daring to steal weapons and ammunition and sneaking in explosives to crush their most fearsome enemy, the crematorium (“Armed Resistance”). Resistance in the camps almost never ended with the prisoners obtaining the freedom they so sought, but a few of them managed not only to escape the camp, but also to survive the numerous German soldiers sent in pursuit. The largest Jewish revolt dating from the Holocaust was that of the Warsaw ghetto. In 1943, the ghetto residents finally had enough of the authoritarian Nazi soldiers and decided to launch a counterattack. A group estimated at 1,000 men fought back with all their might, decimating around 300 hundred soldiers and seriously injuring 1,000 others (“Jewish Resistance to Nazi Genocide”). A...... middle of paper ......st Memorial Museum, nd Web. May 20, 2014. “Jewish resistance to the Nazi genocide.” Jewish Virtual Library. American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, nd Web. May 20, 2014. “Jewish uprising in the ghettos and camps, 1941-1944.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, nd Web. May 20, 2014. “The Jews of Chelm and the Flight from the Borek Forest.” Holocaust Education Research and Archives Team. HEART, and Web. May 20, 2014. “Theresienstadt: Spiritual Resistance and Historical Context.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, nd Web. May 20, 2014. “Revolt at the Treblinka death camp.” Holocaust Education and Archives Research Team. Noah S. Archer HEART, nd Web. May 20, 2014. Weinstock, Yael G. “Spiritual Resistance During the Holocaust.” Yad Vashem. Yad Vashem, nd Web. May 20 2014.