Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
ילקוט מורשת
Angaben zur Quelle:
נ (תשנא) 51-60
Keywords:
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
Abstract:
Discusses Jewish resistance in the Łódź ghetto, beginning with mass demonstrations in August 1940, which were brutally suppressed. Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Judenrat, opposed such demonstrations for fear that there would be more direct German involvement in the ghetto and that he would lose his position; his cooperation with the Nazis angered the ghetto inhabitants. There was no physical resistance to the deportations, possibly because of Rumkowski's insistence that they were necessary in order to save those who remained. However, many Łódź Jews, especially those in the youth movements, carried out clandestine cultural activities and acts of sabotage at their work places. These activities and the daily struggle to survive the horrors of life in the ghetto were also forms of resistance.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
