Resistance Movements

World War II

1941-1945

Presented by:Avital Barnea

Tia Ray

Jeremiah Bentz

Evan Wedel

Locations

Warsaw ( left )VilnaLvovLodzAssisi

Groups Involved

• Dror• Akiva• Hashomer Hatzair• United Jewish

Resistance Association

• Catholic Church• Vilna Ghetto

Underground• Warsaw uprising• White Rose

Warsaw Ghetto

1940 – 1943

Temporary confinement where Jews were held

Surrounded by stone wall

Children smuggled in food ( right )

Warsaw Pictures

Dinner in the Ghetto

Assisi Underground

• Catholic Church

• Father Rufino Niccacci ( leader )

• Unwittingly aided by German command

• Hid Jews in Monasteries disguised as monks and nuns

• Results: not one Jew taken care of was harmed

United Jewish Resistance Assoc.

• Dror ( Yitzhak Zuckman )

• Akiva ( Emmanuel Ringelblum )

• Hashomer Hatzair ( Mordechai Anielwicz )

These three groups formed the United Jewish Resistance Association to help Jews all over Europe.

Bibliography• Miller, Russel The Resistance, Morristown,

New Jersey, Silver Burdett Comp. © 1979• Ramati, Alexander The Assisi Underground

Briarcliff Manor, New York, Scarborough House, © 1978

• Bachrach, Deborah The Resistance, San Diego, California, Lucent Books, © 1998

Bibliography (continued)

• Werstein, Irving The Uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto, New York, New York, W.W. Norton and Comp. Inc. © 1968

• Eckman, Lester & Lazar, Chaim The Jewish Resistance, New York, New York, Shengold Publishing Inc. © 1977

• http://www.moric.com