Jewish Uprisings in the Camps
Clip: 1/27/2025 | 1m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Even in Nazi death camps, Jews rebelled.
Even in Nazi death camps, Jews rebelled. None of these uprisings succeeded, but many saved lives either by destroying the ovens or because Germans shut down the camps for fear that word of the uprisings would spread.
Jewish Uprisings in the Camps
Clip: 1/27/2025 | 1m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Even in Nazi death camps, Jews rebelled. None of these uprisings succeeded, but many saved lives either by destroying the ovens or because Germans shut down the camps for fear that word of the uprisings would spread.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipBERENBAUM: Treblinka had approximately somewhere in the neighborhood of 925,000 Jews being killed.
Some 300 people revolted in Treblinka and escaped.
In the end, there were less than a hundred survivors.
But unless they had tried to escape, there would not have been a hundred survivors.
And then we would have never known anything about Treblinka.
Or at least, not from the perspective of the victims.
We would only know the statistics from the perspective of-- of the perpetrators.
HENRY: There were seven rebellions in the death camps.
Six of them were led by Jews, one by the Russians.
So, actually, even if you only consider violent resistance, the Jews look pretty good.
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