Resistance: They Fought Back

Overview

We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Instead, it’s widely believed “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter.” Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the U.S., Resistance – They Fought Back provides a much-needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity. There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps, and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests. Everywhere in Eastern Europe, Jews waged campaigns of non-violent resistance against the Nazis.

Directed by Kirk Wolfinger, Paula S. Apsell

Top cast

Joel de la Fuente

Marcel Nadjari

Lisa Loeb

Ruzka Korchak

Andrew Kishino

Mordechai Anielewicz

Mark Zeisler

Emanuel Ringelblum

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Julie Benko

Vita Kempner

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David Rosenberg

Marek Edelman

Corey Stoll

Dianna Agron

Maggie Siff

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Michael Berenbaum

Himself

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