[Captured Jews during the uprising are led to the deportation center. May 1943. National Archives.] Essential Questions: What is resistance during the Holocaust? What does it mean to be a bystander, a perpetrator, a victim, a rescuer? How do individuals and groups define their universe of obligation? What are the consequences of this definition and for whom?
Definitions of words tell not only what the word means but a description, thinking, or attitude. Holocaust is such a word. Holocaust-the systematic destruction of a race or people. Resist is also such a word. I found a very interesting defintion of it in a dictionary. Resist-to take a stand; to withstand the force or cause to stand; to be able to repel or ward off; to exert oneself to counteract. It just seems that in order to resist something you have to have a "mindset" long before the situation or circumstance comes up. Otherwise a person won't be able to make a stand or withstand the force or repel it. A person would have to have a determination in their mind and heart that something as horrible as the destruction of a race or people is unacceptable for any reason.
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