[SJackson]

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[Iris7]

Why did all Jewish fighters insist on the importance of "saving Jewish honor" in resisting the murderers? Didn't all heroes perish as martyrs and all martyrs as heroes? Was dying with a gun in the hand worthier than with a prayer on the lips?

There is nothing, nothing, more certain under Heaven than Yes, it is better do die behind a gun in such circumstances. How can this be questioned? How base to see it otherwise. I have great respect for the Jewish fighters in the Warsaw ghetto. Too bad there weren't more of them. (Did not)"all martyrs (perish) as heroes?" Is it heroic to be butchered? Of course not. Only dead.

[SauronOfMordor]

ONLY THOSE who are acquainted with the fratricidal animosity that characterized the relationship in the years leading up to the war, between the Socialist Zionist parties and the Revisionist Zionist party headed by Zeev Jabotinsky, can begin to comprehend the inability or unwillingness to unite the two Jewish military organizations at that desperate time. The movements that founded ZOB and its precursor organization, the anti-fascist bloc, considered Betar to be a semi-fascist movement, whereas they saw themselves as representing all the workers' parties and progressive movements in the ghetto.

So the only people willing to fight were the socialist cells

[DBtoo]

I had always heard of the Polish Jewish ghetto uprising that occured during WWII, but really knew nothing about it but wondered what happened there. I was glad to see this article as I found it very informative, thanks! It was a good read and answered questions.

[Chipata]

He completely misses the fact that 1.5 million Jews fought in the allied armies and as partisans during World War II.