Other Screenings
Following the screening, conversation with Filmmaker Paula Apsell, Professor Dina Porat, and Professor Yoel Yaari
Following the screening, conversation with Filmmaker Paula Apsell, Professor Dina Porat, and Professor Yoel Yaari
We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism actually was. Instead, it is widely believed “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter.” Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the US, Resistance – They Fought Back provides a much-needed corrective to the myth of Jewish passivity. There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps, and thousands of Jews who fought Nazis in the forests. Everywhere in Eastern Europe, Jews waged campaigns of non-violent resistance against the Nazis.