He was a Soviet collaborator, fighting primarily against the local population, who were betrayed by the Jews in these areas when the Soviets occupied them. Many witnesses and historians indicate that members of his unit took part in the joint Jewish-Soviet pacification of the village of Naliboki when over 120 of its inhabitants were murdered. In total, approximately 500 murders are attributed to the Bielski group.
Such an awesome and inspiring video. I am very familiar with Sobibor but I hadn’t heard of these other stories. The fact they were able to hold down an urban area in Warsaw for several months is so impressive. Great content, keep it coming.
If you never heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, have you heard of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944? The Polish Home Army liberated the entire city for 2 months, however the Soviets refused to push on the city and let the Germans retake it because the Home Army was anti communist.
Although I'm not Jewish myself. I'm proud to know that these people resisted their oppressors to the very end. Regardless of whether it was actually fighting them or just simply surviving. You made one magnificent video The Front, my compliments to you.
my Grandfather's sisters were murdered in Poland, by their neighbors, non-jewish Poles . trying to come off as pro nazi and make themselves look better. Just saying this would get me jailed in Poland.
Also what you don't hear is the story of the 5,000 members of the Jewish Brigade that fought in Italy, had Britain allowed more Jews into Israel and then allowed them to join the British Armed forces, I personally believe that WWII would have gone differently due to their tenacity just like the Poles, they would have filled the void where the British were significantly short of soldiers at D-day. The British lost probably at least 1 or 2 Jewish Armies (an army being 100,000 strong) more importantly soldiers who could speak European languages and would have given the British a great advantage however due to their foreign office policy they lost out.
Letting European Jews into Palestine led to the Arab Revolt (1936-39). This is why Britain curtailed Jewish migration. British government did not have a crystal ball and did not for see the Holocaust. Pisses me off when people complain that Britain could have saved the Jews. They could not. Most of the victims of the Holocaust lived in eastern Europe. Half came from one country, Poland. Well out of range of British military.
@@shanemcdowall There is a debate of who started the Arab rioting of the 1920s let alone the latter years, and whether the British themselves had put the flea in the Arab ear and there is a debate of what did exactly Col Waters Taylor (The financial controller of the Military mandate) said to Haj Amin and whether there was actual British incitement of the 1920s riots however that is one for looking up in the national archives. Could the British want to keep the mandate? Certainly they had pipelines (which I have on National Geographic maps of the time) coming from Iraq and various other parts of the Middle East into Israel this cut down Maritime journey times and meant that Britain only had the Med to navigate safely during WWII. Please read my post correctly I did not say Gt Britain could have foreseen the holocaust. However in 1942 they certainly knew of the holocaust from the Poles and a Polish captain (Capt Witold) broke in and broke out of an extermination camp to tell the world of what was going as the Poles were fuming and angry over the whole situation as they knew from 1941, Also they knew about the Nxxi attitude back in 1938 towards the Jews (plus there's the book Mein Kampf), as they held a conference in Evian instigated by President Roosevelt of how to help the Jews and the delegate from the British Israel mandate was not even allowed to speak the Brits stopped the U.S. for even complaining about the mandate as they themselves were not fulfilling their Jewish immigrant quota, however that does not stop the UK from taking unilateral action. Plus we have the Kinder transport from Czechoslovakia. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple knew what was going on and pleaded for HMG to do something in 1943. Finally Dominic Raab whilst Foreign Secretary said it was not our finest point in history, that says it all really!
@@billmmckelvie5188 Oil from the Middle East was used in the Mediterranean Theatre. UK fuel came from the Americas. British code breakers were aware of atrocities against Jews and others in July, 1941. What could the British government do about it? Send transport ships through the Baltic? In 1939 Britain could not even give token aid to Poland. So I fail to see why they should take any of the blame for the actions of the Germans and their collaborators.
Come on Bill, tell us how the British government could have saved Jews from the Holocaust. Oh, and the Arabs did not need anymore to "put a flea in their ear", they hated the Jews full stop.
Britain was short of soldiers. What a load of horse shit. Between June of 1940 and D-Day, most British infantry divisions spent their time swanning around in the UK. Commonwealth and Empire infantry divisions did most of the fighting. Clever way to keep British military death toll down.
I did a presentation on Jewish resistance groups during my freshmen year. It was only supposed to be five minutes but I took 30 because I explained every little detail. Military history has always been my favorite subject since I was a little kid so Jr was my time to shine
My great grandfather was a jew who came to brazil in 1920. He got angry at so many jews who accepted going to concetratiom camps instead of fighting their opressors
Some additional info: The member of the resistance group at Treblinka who got caught was a Jewish physician from Czechoslovakia. To avoid interrogation and compromising the planned revolt, he swallowed a poison capsule. Both Treblinka and Sobibor were camps built exclusively for extermination, not with added slave labour camps such as Auschwitz. The vast majority of arrivals at both Treblinka and Sobibor would be killed immediately upon arrival without even any selection process for slave labour. Only a very small number of Jews was kept alive temporarily to keep operations ofthe camp running. In both camps together more than 1,2 million people were killed and the only known survivors from both camps are in the very small triple digits and the vast majority of those were escapees from the revolts. both camps were demolished shortly aftr the revolts
Could you do one about the Gypsies who resisted please. They've been largely forgotten as so very,very few survived but their actions in the face of death were incredible. Speaking to Czech people recently they have an extremely low opinion of Gypsies, I explained that the entire population of them in Czech was murdered and that those there today face....well. look it up on human rights watch or amnesty international.
Important to remember that Jewish resistance took on more forms than just armed rebellions during the Second World War. Clinging to culture, religion, and small acts of humanity also were a form of resistance
Very good statement. Jews often accuse that their neighbors did not help them enough in Central Europe, where in some countries giving water or food to a Jew was death, and hiding them was death for the entire family. So I am asking for one reverse story, when a Jew helped his non-Jewish neighbor, risking his life. Both I and many other of my compatriots have asked about such a story many times, never receiving an answer. I do not expect a history under German occupation, where Jews were target number 1, let it be a history under Soviet occupation, when the Soviets were Hitler's allies in the initial stage of the war, when Jews had the opportunity to provide such help
@piotrbartnicki6590 Many thousands of Jews served in the French, Polish, and British armies during the early days of the war. Just from the british mandate (Israel) over 130,000 Jews volunteered to join the British army (but most were turned down by the colonial authorities)
There was a show about resistance groups and partisans in world war 2 on the military channel now American heroes channel called we will not go quietly they showed the names of the Jewish partisans in a episode dedicated to them
Yes, I knew. I had an uncle who's outfit freed a camp. I also had teachers who if not part of an unit that freed a camp, viewed the camps and survivors. All said never forget. I also had a teacher who was a teenage prisoner in factory building weapons in Germany. It was real, it happened.
My father and his family were all partisans. My grandfather set up a factory in the Drohobycz ghetto First to save Jews by having them be essential workers and then to smuggle Jews out of the ghetto. He worked with Polish resistance to get the Jews out and into a unit where they would be fed and given a mission. Getting out of the ghetto wasn't the biggest problem. That was having weapons to resist and food to survive. Farmers that had little surplus weren't going to give it away and Polish people didn't like the idea of armed Jews. And who could use on the outside trust? There was a price on their head. Eventually, the Germans found out that my grandfather was stealing gasoline using a truck to get Jews out. Fortunately, the Gestapo called the head to speak to the German Austrian officer running the camp and didn't realize that my grandfather picked up and pretended to be him. (My grandfather had been an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army.) And so they fled, My father wasn't even yet 10. He killed collaborators by the age of 12 and had to live with that. The hardest part wasn't killing them. It was getting enough food and watching people die of starvation and otherwise preventable or curable diseases as they hid in winter. That's why my father eventually became a doctor.
Great story, did your father fight with the polish resistance, or was he a part of Russian partisans. Also I heard that members of the polish resistance were treated brutally by the USSR. Was that the case for your family?
Nelson Mandela was called a terrorist, now we celebrate his efforts for ending apartheid. The vietcongs were considered terrorists, now we recognize their humble fight for defending their homeland. Now the Palestinians are considered terrorists...
Unless you plan on arming yourself with predator drones and Apache helicopters, I don’t think stockpiling a few ARs is gonna do much against a western nation’s military forces. With that said, there’s a lot to be learned from this, so I very much agree with you there and really hope history doesn’t repeat itself.
@@timhuber2814 "I don't think" sums it up. Didn't pay attention to what happened in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan did you. You don't go toe to toe with the army. Only an idiot does that. You attack supply lines, logistics, sabotage, and kill from the shadows.
This is a great story of resistance! Please do a video on the conscientious objectors who refused to join the axis of evil. I have found some stuff about people who wouldn't join the Nazis but what about the Italians, Japanese, and others.
Please do a video on the story of Felix Sparks and his men, they fought though, Italy (including Anzio), France (operation dragoon), and Germany (liberation of Dachau concentration camp). There’s a really good series on Netflix about it called the liberator, but it deserves more attention.
Correction required 184 is 10% of 1840 move that decimal point left one place. Otherwise excellent. Re Warsaw ghetto, yes I knew about it. Partisan movement no.
if your referring to Palestine its not the same. The jews weren't given 5 deals to have an independent state in which they said no too. Nor was there a human rights council and UN based Refugee department Soley for jews. Its tragic what is happening to the arabs of Judea and Samaria but its on there leaders for not accepting peace and waging war. if Jews could of accepted peace in ww2 they would have.
Im glad this video was made because some of these details I really didn't know outside of the Defiance movie, especially like the movie back in 1987 about that escape.
and Poles whom were my grandfather's sister's neighbors their entire lives shot them all in the head when the Germans invaded to impress the Nazis... Plenty of blood is on Polish hands and Russian, and Ukrainian's, Lithuanian's Belorussian, any other lowland nations that had pogroms. Also the Germans in WW1 treated Jews fleeing the Russian Imperial forces better than the Russians. The jews fled west not east. O and not bs, German soldiers took carts , horses and donkeys from fleeing jews to give to Poles whom didn't have them b/c the better supplied and wealthier (wealth as in had donkeys and carts) jews were called lazy rats for not lugging their stuff by back and foot and they felt bad for their non-jewish brethren. Hmm thats pretty f-cked up. Taking from one group to give to another b/c they lack a resource. That one group rightfully had.
@@Reclusiarch_jakal I'm sorry about your family, unfortunately scum can be found in every nation, sometimes people you know and trust all your life can turn on you with no warning for some perceived wrongs or simply for greed. Regretfully Poles are no exception and many of my countrymen are indeed antisemitic cretins even today. And yet Poland was not responsible for German death camps on its soil and calling them Polish instead of German is intentionally misleading and needs to be called out anytime and every time it happens. Poland as a country and Poles as a nation did not embark on a antisemitic genocidal spree. Germany did that. The same Germany that as you say treated Jews better then the Russians. Please know that there was 3 million polish citizens of Jewish faith in Poland before WW2 that choose to live there. Nobody was holding them in chains so their life could not have been that bad there. Many of them considered themselves (and were) Polish patriots, with enormous contributions to science, economy and culture. Due to actions of those kind Germans a 35 million nation have lost estimated 6 million of it's citizens - half of that number Polish Jews, a loss forever changing it's ethnic and cultural makeup.
3:25 The guy looking at the camera in this picture and the young boy were both identified after the war. Josef Blosche For his dedication and zeal during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Blosche was awarded the Cross of War Merit 2nd Class with Swords. During his trial in Erfurt in April 1969 Blosche was found guilty of war crimes, including the participation in the shooting of more than 1000 Jews in the courtyard of a building complex on the morning of 19 April 1943.
People don't require 18,400 calories p/day, with the possible exception of the likes of Rosie O'Donnell or somesuch. 184 calories(what an oddly specific number...) is arguably 10% of what's really needed.
Minor mistake. You said they got less than 1% of the daily recommended calorie intake. I don't quite think that is right. Typical adult is recommended to get 1600-3000 calories per day. If 184 calories were equal to 1%, then it would be 184/x = 0.01, x = 18400 calories. 184/(1600, 3000) * 100% = (11.5%, 6.13%) Great video though!
Hamas Tunnels were built with millions of dollars that were meant to make Gaza a Paradise if the Gazans are suffering ,they have to Blame the Hamas and their leaders who use them as Human Shields,when Israel removed all the Jewish settlers ,they left Factories and Nurseries behind that the Gaza s could make a great living ref, exports but they along with Hamas BURNED THEM to the ground.That was in 2005 and they seem to just want to HATE Israel for being.. RELEASE OUR HOSTAGES and FREE YOURSELVES OF HAMAS and All Islamist JIHAD IDEOLOGY ..
And also tell us about palestinian resistance. Maybe you want to condemn palestinians for building tunnels? Would it be more reasonable for jewish resistance to build houses instead of building tunnels? Tell us more about it.
No one could have prepared the Jewish ppl for what they endured. They were persecuted all over Europe long before the war. It makes me so happy that some were able to fight back. I’m sure more would have if they weren’t blindsided.
Yeah, we were pretty much hunted everywhere in Europe (I'm Greco Georgian with Mizrahi Jewish descent), where else are we supposed to go ? Either way I'm glad we have survived
Please make a video highlighting the contribution of African troops in World War Two. Troops from countries like Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone..... fought and endured heavy losses for the allies but never even get a mention. -Kenya lost 30% of its young male population to WW2.
My grandfather was part of the Jewish-Polish underground and fought. Eventually, he was sent to Auschwitz, but he survived and is alive today at 99 (almost 100). He made a proud Jew out of me and I'll be damned if I don't do what he did if I'm ever faced with possible death because of my very existence. I gotta do it for my family who I never got to meet.
What a relief to learn that there was some level of short term revenge for the Jews of that time. Why are there no high budget films about this? This really makes me think that Inglorious Bastards was a Joke...
Bielski Brothers were Just a bunch of bandidts and communists traitors Who murder3d polish civilians in naliboki massacre. Stop watching propaganda movies and learn real history.
@@filipnalewaja5609 only one of the brothers actually fought for a red army unit. The others and the refugees they had with them were pretty much forced to provide supplies to this unit.
@@ieatmice751 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naliboki_massacre 2 of them took part in that massacre. instead of joining polish resistance they choose to collaborate with communist partisans that was betrayal.
to these brave young men and women you will always be remembered, it takes guts to do this guts I probably don't have, and that just makes me admire them even more
It's uncompleted. A lot of jews also fought the Nazis joining the regular US, USSR, France & UK armed forces and Canadian, Newfoundlander, Australian, New Zealander and South African batalions.
Presenting the Bielski brothers here, who fought mainly against the local population, were Soviet collaborators, and also taking into account the joint action of pacifying the village of Naliboki carried out by Jews and Soviets, where many witnesses and historians point to the participation of members of the armed units of the Bielski brothers in this crime is inappropriate. place
Great vid, but why no mention of the *1944 Warsaw uprising? That was the big one, launched by over a thousand Jews and Poles of the so-called "Polish Home Army"... the Poles, tragically, were ALSO anti-Semitic, and often refused to back-up the Jewish fighters (Poland's state-sponsored websight today describes second Warsaw uprising as an entirely Polish affair, and does not mention the Jews even once, although the Jews did much of the heavy lifting). Arms and raidios were dropped in by the RAF, and the SS commander, Jurgen Stroop, had to request army Panzers and Luftwaffe Stukas to support his operation. Stalin promised to help, but lied, letting the SS slaughter the Jewish and Polish survivors before launching his armored assault on Warsaw, and installing a Communist puppet govt.
I am considered a"baby boomer" my Father and all 4 of his brothers fought the Nazis in Europe, my generation always would ask, how did average Germans ,elect and then support the Nazi Regime of Germany, now after seeing how Trump with all his Hateful words ,was elected President of Our Democratic Country, we got our answer.. My generation still can't believe how the Republicans in OUR CONGRESS have "Embraced" his Nazi Ideology .. We seem to be living in Hitler's Germany ,haven't we learned from History? Please VOTE BLUE ,To Keep Our Democracy Alive.....
I’d like to see a doco about the Roma/Gypsy community in WW2……..always lots about everyone else but in all my 74 years I’ve never seen anything about them. That feels kinda shameful and disrespectful…….
When I was a kid late 40,s early 50s I lived in a manly Jewish neighborhood on the south side of Chicago .The fish monger was a partisan in Poland and he use to tell us kids stories all the time .One of the things he use to tell use is that the poles where almost as bad as the Germans and he hated both .
Sure... Poland were as bad as Germany... Everyone was antisemitic from Russia to France. Poland was not an exception, but they had laws to protect Jewish poles. Pogrom was a common thing out of Poland, especially in Soviet Russia and Ukraine, not in Poland. I remember my polish grandmother telling that in Ukraine they thought that Jewish bread was made with Christian's blood. Many Jews fled Germany to Poland in the 30's, so I guess poles weren't as bad as germans.
Are you saying that the average person needs over 18,000 calories per day? This assertion is not consistent with any information I've ever come across before
For all of the people here in the United States that think they're going to somehow overthrow the government with their little peashooters let this be an example that though an attempt may be brave I believe the more intelligent thing would be to leave the country that is trying to be tyrannical
Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. I salute these brave Jewish men and women who fought back against impossible odds.
exactly. take as many of the bastards with you. Death is the philosophy inaugurated by the enemy, so give them as much as you can.
Don't forget their polish allies but not the polish army itself
Our revenge is to live.
- Tuvia Bielski, Defiance
What a film
He was a Soviet collaborator, fighting primarily against the local population, who were betrayed by the Jews in these areas when the Soviets occupied them.
Many witnesses and historians indicate that members of his unit took part in the joint Jewish-Soviet pacification of the village of Naliboki when over 120 of its inhabitants were murdered.
In total, approximately 500 murders are attributed to the Bielski group.
I really enjoy hearing about these resistance movements during ww2. Tell us about the Greek, Italian and French resistance
How about the German resistance?
@@michaelandreipalon359 yeah! All of them
*cough* french resistance *cough* you mean the ones with the white flag? Or the ones that are chilling in a barely bombed Paris?
@@notofficialpickles507 if you were hoping to be funny you failed
@@neofulcrum5013 nah never tried to be funny
Such an awesome and inspiring video. I am very familiar with Sobibor but I hadn’t heard of these other stories. The fact they were able to hold down an urban area in Warsaw for several months is so impressive. Great content, keep it coming.
If you never heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, have you heard of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944? The Polish Home Army liberated the entire city for 2 months, however the Soviets refused to push on the city and let the Germans retake it because the Home Army was anti communist.
@@cameron4562 Not entire if i remember, they failed to cap some important point in the city, but yeah, they are brave.
We hardly ever hear the voices of the Jews that fought back!
Indeed
You ever heard of the bielski brothers?
@@neofulcrum5013 I saw the movie Defiance that is based on them.
Isaac's Army - a great book on Warsaw you won't regret reading
@@krantznikov47 mila 48
Praise to those brave Hebrew men and women that refused to go quietly. May the fighting spirit of David continue to make them strong and defiant.
Although I'm not Jewish myself. I'm proud to know that these people resisted their oppressors to the very end. Regardless of whether it was actually fighting them or just simply surviving. You made one magnificent video The Front, my compliments to you.
my Grandfather's sisters were murdered in Poland, by their neighbors, non-jewish Poles . trying to come off as pro nazi and make themselves look better. Just saying this would get me jailed in Poland.
@@Reclusiarch_jakal----I'm sorry for your loss. And I'm sorry that was the reason they died.
They were essentially domestic terrorists.
@@Reclusiarch_jakal they were Jewish. They belonged in the Middle East.
@@barrymccokiner7559---But their is no excuse for oppression no matter how it's packaged.
Better to spit at the enemy's faces than submit. That's most likely their motto.
but when muslims do it they are "terrorists" 😂
Also what you don't hear is the story of the 5,000 members of the Jewish Brigade that fought in Italy, had Britain allowed more Jews into Israel and then allowed them to join the British Armed forces, I personally believe that WWII would have gone differently due to their tenacity just like the Poles, they would have filled the void where the British were significantly short of soldiers at D-day. The British lost probably at least 1 or 2 Jewish Armies (an army being 100,000 strong) more importantly soldiers who could speak European languages and would have given the British a great advantage however due to their foreign office policy they lost out.
Letting European Jews into Palestine led to the Arab Revolt (1936-39). This is why Britain curtailed Jewish migration. British government did not have a crystal ball and did not for see the Holocaust. Pisses me off when people complain that Britain could have saved the Jews. They could not. Most of the victims of the Holocaust lived in eastern Europe. Half came from one country, Poland. Well out of range of British military.
@@shanemcdowall There is a debate of who started the Arab rioting of the 1920s let alone the latter years, and whether the British themselves had put the flea in the Arab ear and there is a debate of what did exactly Col Waters Taylor (The financial controller of the Military mandate) said to Haj Amin and whether there was actual British incitement of the 1920s riots however that is one for looking up in the national archives. Could the British want to keep the mandate? Certainly they had pipelines (which I have on National Geographic maps of the time) coming from Iraq and various other parts of the Middle East into Israel this cut down Maritime journey times and meant that Britain only had the Med to navigate safely during WWII. Please read my post correctly I did not say Gt Britain could have foreseen the holocaust. However in 1942 they certainly knew of the holocaust from the Poles and a Polish captain (Capt Witold) broke in and broke out of an extermination camp to tell the world of what was going as the Poles were fuming and angry over the whole situation as they knew from 1941, Also they knew about the Nxxi attitude back in 1938 towards the Jews (plus there's the book Mein Kampf), as they held a conference in Evian instigated by President Roosevelt of how to help the Jews and the delegate from the British Israel mandate was not even allowed to speak the Brits stopped the U.S. for even complaining about the mandate as they themselves were not fulfilling their Jewish immigrant quota, however that does not stop the UK from taking unilateral action. Plus we have the Kinder transport from Czechoslovakia. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple knew what was going on and pleaded for HMG to do something in 1943. Finally Dominic Raab whilst Foreign Secretary said it was not our finest point in history, that says it all really!
@@billmmckelvie5188 Oil from the Middle East was used in the Mediterranean Theatre. UK fuel came from the Americas. British code breakers were aware of atrocities against Jews and others in July, 1941. What could the British government do about it? Send transport ships through the Baltic? In 1939 Britain could not even give token aid to Poland. So I fail to see why they should take any of the blame for the actions of the Germans and their collaborators.
Come on Bill, tell us how the British government could have saved Jews from the Holocaust. Oh, and the Arabs did not need anymore to "put a flea in their ear", they hated the Jews full stop.
Britain was short of soldiers. What a load of horse shit. Between June of 1940 and D-Day, most British infantry divisions spent their time swanning around in the UK. Commonwealth and Empire infantry divisions did most of the fighting. Clever way to keep British military death toll down.
1:44 he surely must be referring to the average American since I don't belive anyone else needs 18000 calories a day to survive
That'd be 36 Big Macs, or 21 Big Mac and large drink combos.
Lmao
I was told fighting against your oppressor is wrong and we have to condemn them? Interessting
There is also the story about 500.000 jews who fought in the ranks of the red army, 200.000 fell in battle.
Jews as a nationality were only second to Russians in war medals received in the Soviet forces.
Also you forgot to mention about 150 ths jews Who fought for wermaht.
@@filipnalewaja5609 Tell us about it.
I did a presentation on Jewish resistance groups during my freshmen year. It was only supposed to be five minutes but I took 30 because I explained every little detail. Military history has always been my favorite subject since I was a little kid so Jr was my time to shine
Adam Thrussell I knew about Warsaw ghetto, I did not know the full details.
Thank you for the presentation.
Stay healthy and well
My great grandfather was a jew who came to brazil in 1920. He got angry at so many jews who accepted going to concetratiom camps instead of fighting their opressors
It's easy to say what youd do when you're not there
Some additional info: The member of the resistance group at Treblinka who got caught was a Jewish physician from Czechoslovakia. To avoid interrogation and compromising the planned revolt, he swallowed a poison capsule.
Both Treblinka and Sobibor were camps built exclusively for extermination, not with added slave labour camps such as Auschwitz. The vast majority of arrivals at both Treblinka and Sobibor would be killed immediately upon arrival without even any selection process for slave labour. Only a very small number of Jews was kept alive temporarily to keep operations ofthe camp running. In both camps together more than 1,2 million people were killed and the only known survivors from both camps are in the very small triple digits and the vast majority of those were escapees from the revolts. both camps were demolished shortly aftr the revolts
Another fantastic video. Thats all I can say on this, others have already put it more eloquently. These heroes shall never be forgotten.
Good concise documentary on a topic that could fill volumes of books.
Could you do one about the Gypsies who resisted please. They've been largely forgotten as so very,very few survived but their actions in the face of death were incredible.
Speaking to Czech people recently they have an extremely low opinion of Gypsies, I explained that the entire population of them in Czech was murdered and that those there today face....well. look it up on human rights watch or amnesty international.
Important to remember that Jewish resistance took on more forms than just armed rebellions during the Second World War. Clinging to culture, religion, and small acts of humanity also were a form of resistance
in france we have france bloch ; olga bancic ; simonne schloss ; jewess heroin of the resistance ;all guillotined by nazis
Very good statement.
Jews often accuse that their neighbors did not help them enough in Central Europe, where in some countries giving water or food to a Jew was death, and hiding them was death for the entire family.
So I am asking for one reverse story, when a Jew helped his non-Jewish neighbor, risking his life. Both I and many other of my compatriots have asked about such a story many times, never receiving an answer.
I do not expect a history under German occupation, where Jews were target number 1, let it be a history under Soviet occupation, when the Soviets were Hitler's allies in the initial stage of the war, when Jews had the opportunity to provide such help
@piotrbartnicki6590 Many thousands of Jews served in the French, Polish, and British armies during the early days of the war. Just from the british mandate (Israel) over 130,000 Jews volunteered to join the British army (but most were turned down by the colonial authorities)
There was a show about resistance groups and partisans in world war 2 on the military channel now American heroes channel called we will not go quietly they showed the names of the Jewish partisans in a episode dedicated to them
Yes, I knew. I had an uncle who's outfit freed a camp. I also had teachers who if not part of an unit that freed a camp, viewed the camps and survivors. All said never forget. I also had a teacher who was a teenage prisoner in factory building weapons in Germany.
It was real, it happened.
My father and his family were all partisans. My grandfather set up a factory in the Drohobycz ghetto First to save Jews by having them be essential workers and then to smuggle Jews out of the ghetto. He worked with Polish resistance to get the Jews out and into a unit where they would be fed and given a mission. Getting out of the ghetto wasn't the biggest problem. That was having weapons to resist and food to survive. Farmers that had little surplus weren't going to give it away and Polish people didn't like the idea of armed Jews. And who could use on the outside trust? There was a price on their head. Eventually, the Germans found out that my grandfather was stealing gasoline using a truck to get Jews out. Fortunately, the Gestapo called the head to speak to the German Austrian officer running the camp and didn't realize that my grandfather picked up and pretended to be him. (My grandfather had been an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army.) And so they fled, My father wasn't even yet 10. He killed collaborators by the age of 12 and had to live with that. The hardest part wasn't killing them. It was getting enough food and watching people die of starvation and otherwise preventable or curable diseases as they hid in winter. That's why my father eventually became a doctor.
Great story, did your father fight with the polish resistance, or was he a part of Russian partisans.
Also I heard that members of the polish resistance were treated brutally by the USSR. Was that the case for your family?
Yeah, in Poland, a lot of people are antijew because they are christan colaborate with germany
@@canthi109 don’t act like Jews weren’t Polish. Blame nazis not Polish people.
@@veendex2529 I dont mean it
@@veendex2529 I only mean have some Polish colaborate with nazi,
Is it your Race or Religion that makes the difference between Hero and Terrorist?
Nelson Mandela was called a terrorist, now we celebrate his efforts for ending apartheid. The vietcongs were considered terrorists, now we recognize their humble fight for defending their homeland. Now the Palestinians are considered terrorists...
What a shame they weren't well armed. We should learn from them.
Unless you plan on arming yourself with predator drones and Apache helicopters, I don’t think stockpiling a few ARs is gonna do much against a western nation’s military forces. With that said, there’s a lot to be learned from this, so I very much agree with you there and really hope history doesn’t repeat itself.
@@timhuber2814 "I don't think" sums it up. Didn't pay attention to what happened in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan did you. You don't go toe to toe with the army. Only an idiot does that. You attack supply lines, logistics, sabotage, and kill from the shadows.
@@timhuber2814 me ; laughs in Vietnamese rice farmers
@@thebarkingmouse , here's a book for you: Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. It's great.
@@timhuber2814 Afghans joined the conversation
This is a great story of resistance! Please do a video on the conscientious objectors who refused to join the axis of evil. I have found some stuff about people who wouldn't join the Nazis but what about the Italians, Japanese, and others.
Please do a video on the story of Felix Sparks and his men, they fought though, Italy (including Anzio), France (operation dragoon), and Germany (liberation of Dachau concentration camp). There’s a really good series on Netflix about it called the liberator, but it deserves more attention.
Spectacular content. Wanna know as much as possible about resistance throughout the Holocaust.
Resistance is never futile.
Correction required 184 is 10% of 1840 move that decimal point left one place. Otherwise excellent. Re Warsaw ghetto, yes I knew about it. Partisan movement no.
Could you make episodes about the neutral countries of WW2; Portugal, Spain, Switzerland?
Turkey and saudi arabia was neutral too
So they weren't called terrorists....interesting.. I mean they had every right to fight for freedom, I just wish others could see the similarities ❤
if your referring to Palestine its not the same. The jews weren't given 5 deals to have an independent state in which they said no too. Nor was there a human rights council and UN based Refugee department Soley for jews. Its tragic what is happening to the arabs of Judea and Samaria but its on there leaders for not accepting peace and waging war. if Jews could of accepted peace in ww2 they would have.
Such a good video, keep it up!
Im glad this video was made because some of these details I really didn't know outside of the Defiance movie, especially like the movie back in 1987 about that escape.
Beautiful ❤️ loved it keep making this type of content!
6:46 NOT A POLISH CAMP!!!
A GERMAN CAMP ON POLISH TERRITORY!!!
Everyone realizes that.
@@mhroe And yet everyone keeps calling them Polish instead of German :(
@@mhroe Front does not as we heard
and Poles whom were my grandfather's sister's neighbors their entire lives shot them all in the head when the Germans invaded to impress the Nazis... Plenty of blood is on Polish hands and Russian, and Ukrainian's, Lithuanian's Belorussian, any other lowland nations that had pogroms. Also the Germans in WW1 treated Jews fleeing the Russian Imperial forces better than the Russians. The jews fled west not east. O and not bs, German soldiers took carts , horses and donkeys from fleeing jews to give to Poles whom didn't have them b/c the better supplied and wealthier (wealth as in had donkeys and carts) jews were called lazy rats for not lugging their stuff by back and foot and they felt bad for their non-jewish brethren. Hmm thats pretty f-cked up. Taking from one group to give to another b/c they lack a resource. That one group rightfully had.
@@Reclusiarch_jakal I'm sorry about your family, unfortunately scum can be found in every nation, sometimes people you know and trust all your life can turn on you with no warning for some perceived wrongs or simply for greed.
Regretfully Poles are no exception and many of my countrymen are indeed antisemitic cretins even today.
And yet Poland was not responsible for German death camps on its soil and calling them Polish instead of German is intentionally misleading and needs to be called out anytime and every time it happens.
Poland as a country and Poles as a nation did not embark on a antisemitic genocidal spree. Germany did that. The same Germany that as you say treated Jews better then the Russians.
Please know that there was 3 million polish citizens of Jewish faith in Poland before WW2 that choose to live there. Nobody was holding them in chains so their life could not have been that bad there. Many of them considered themselves (and were) Polish patriots, with enormous contributions to science, economy and culture.
Due to actions of those kind Germans a 35 million nation have lost estimated 6 million of it's citizens - half of that number Polish Jews, a loss forever changing it's ethnic and cultural makeup.
You have so upped your game in this video. Cheers!
3:25 The guy looking at the camera in this picture and the young boy were both identified after the war. Josef Blosche
For his dedication and zeal during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Blosche was awarded the Cross of War Merit 2nd Class with Swords. During his trial in Erfurt in April 1969 Blosche was found guilty of war crimes, including the participation in the shooting of more than 1000 Jews in the courtyard of a building complex on the morning of 19 April 1943.
Last time I read about it, the boy was still disputed. Theres a book about it; I think its literally called the boy
I learned a lot today. Thanks!
Fantastic video, just one thing to note, 184 kcal is 10% of someone's daily calorific need, not 1% (unless you are an American of course)
pretty sure that's closer to 10% of daily caloric intake.. not sure how accurate these videos are
i think it's less because he put the labour into account, not just flat requirments.
People don't require 18,400 calories p/day, with the possible exception of the likes of Rosie O'Donnell or somesuch. 184 calories(what an oddly specific number...) is arguably 10% of what's really needed.
its nice to know the courage of the jews...shalom
The Warsaw Jewish ghetto uprising has been covered in many books - heartbreaking to read.
Minor mistake. You said they got less than 1% of the daily recommended calorie intake. I don't quite think that is right.
Typical adult is recommended to get 1600-3000 calories per day. If 184 calories were equal to 1%, then it would be 184/x = 0.01, x = 18400 calories.
184/(1600, 3000) * 100% = (11.5%, 6.13%)
Great video though!
Wouldn't 184 calories be just under 10% of the calories needed?
Did not know much of this, great video1
Its crazy they used tunnels and underground systems. Kinda like the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza ghetto today.
Hamas Tunnels were built with millions of dollars that were meant to make Gaza a Paradise if the Gazans are suffering ,they have to Blame the Hamas and their leaders who use them as Human Shields,when Israel removed all the Jewish settlers ,they left Factories and Nurseries behind that the Gaza s could make a great living ref, exports but they along with Hamas BURNED THEM to the ground.That was in 2005 and they seem to just want to HATE Israel for being.. RELEASE OUR HOSTAGES and FREE YOURSELVES OF HAMAS and All Islamist JIHAD IDEOLOGY ..
@@Shoshanna-jn3fxit’s really disgusting the amount of comments who think Gaza is the same as fighting back against a holocaust
And also tell us about palestinian resistance. Maybe you want to condemn palestinians for building tunnels?
Would it be more reasonable for jewish resistance to build houses instead of building tunnels? Tell us more about it.
Never let your government disarm you
Thank you for the History
Our pleasure!
@@TheFront Thank you
My cousins fought in the resistance and some survived.
This is why 2nd amendment is important
"Rage against the dying of the light" - Dylan Thomas
Did he just say 184 Calories is 1% of what a adult needs daily?? 😂
Why are you laughing?
@@keving6298 because the math is so far off it made me laugh. Is that ok?? 😂
@@psbrayshaw ok I get it now
@@keving6298 if it was 1%.... This guy thinks your normal daily intake should be over 18,000 calories! 😂
@@psbrayshaw yea that is insane
Resistance against fascism in Asia would be nice. China, Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan, and even Japan.
I needed this for an essay lol
No one could have prepared the Jewish ppl for what they endured. They were persecuted all over Europe long before the war. It makes me so happy that some were able to fight back. I’m sure more would have if they weren’t blindsided.
Yeah, we were pretty much hunted everywhere in Europe (I'm Greco Georgian with Mizrahi Jewish descent), where else are we supposed to go ? Either way I'm glad we have survived
Please make a video highlighting the contribution of African troops in World War Two. Troops from countries like Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone..... fought and endured heavy losses for the allies but never even get a mention.
-Kenya lost 30% of its young male population to WW2.
My grandfather was part of the Jewish-Polish underground and fought. Eventually, he was sent to Auschwitz, but he survived and is alive today at 99 (almost 100). He made a proud Jew out of me and I'll be damned if I don't do what he did if I'm ever faced with possible death because of my very existence. I gotta do it for my family who I never got to meet.
What a relief to learn that there was some level of short term revenge for the Jews of that time. Why are there no high budget films about this? This really makes me think that Inglorious Bastards was a Joke...
Jews: *are badass*
My grandmother: *p a t h e d i c*
Fuck yeah. Mozzeltov my jewish bretherin
Do not go gently into the night
Reminds me about the Bielski brothers
Bielski Brothers were Just a bunch of bandidts and communists traitors Who murder3d polish civilians in naliboki massacre. Stop watching propaganda movies and learn real history.
@@filipnalewaja5609 only one of the brothers actually fought for a red army unit. The others and the refugees they had with them were pretty much forced to provide supplies to this unit.
@@ieatmice751 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naliboki_massacre 2 of them took part in that massacre. instead of joining polish resistance they choose to collaborate with communist partisans that was betrayal.
@@filipnalewaja5609 that was betrayal? Not their neighbors welcoming or even helping the people trying to kill them???
to these brave young men and women
you will always be remembered, it takes guts to do this
guts I probably don't have, and that just makes me admire them even more
How about a video on the Jewish men and women that fought as refugees in other nation's armed forces?
Sobibor was a German Camp, not a polish. In poland, but german nontheless. Watch the wording.
What’s ur intro music called?
Hero’s all!
Awesome story thank you.
Americans don’t sit in POW camps.
I’d of organized a revolt to get out.
Much easier said than done
It's uncompleted. A lot of jews also fought the Nazis joining the regular US, USSR, France & UK armed forces and Canadian, Newfoundlander, Australian, New Zealander and South African batalions.
"Step one! Retrieve the keys!"
did 48 people dislike this smh
Most likely neo nazis, radical muslims, and God knows what other filth.
Outstanding! Don't tread on me!
Why doesn’t anybody EVER talk about the around 150,000 Jews that served Germany during the war???
Jews had 2 choice camps or labor
What would you do if a gun is pointed at your head?
Presenting the Bielski brothers here, who fought mainly against the local population, were Soviet collaborators, and also taking into account the joint action of pacifying the village of Naliboki carried out by Jews and Soviets, where many witnesses and historians point to the participation of members of the armed units of the Bielski brothers in this crime is inappropriate. place
Great vid, but why no mention of the *1944 Warsaw uprising? That was the big one, launched by over a thousand Jews and Poles of the so-called "Polish Home Army"... the Poles, tragically, were ALSO anti-Semitic, and often refused to back-up the Jewish fighters (Poland's state-sponsored websight today describes second Warsaw uprising as an entirely Polish affair, and does not mention the Jews even once, although the Jews did much of the heavy lifting). Arms and raidios were dropped in by the RAF, and the SS commander, Jurgen Stroop, had to request army Panzers and Luftwaffe Stukas to support his operation. Stalin promised to help, but lied, letting the SS slaughter the Jewish and Polish survivors before launching his armored assault on Warsaw, and installing a Communist puppet govt.
Great video.
Never forget, a besieged people have a right to defend themselves, by any and all means necessary.
We won't go quietly, the Germans can count on that!!"
Is rumored the Warsaw Ghetto uprising was started out with ten handguns. It grew from there.
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I watch the movie of sobibor revolt at school, and it badass.
I am considered a"baby boomer" my Father and all 4 of his brothers fought the Nazis in Europe, my generation always would ask, how did average Germans ,elect and then support the Nazi Regime of Germany, now after seeing how Trump with all his Hateful words ,was elected President of Our Democratic Country, we got our answer.. My generation still can't believe how the Republicans in OUR CONGRESS have "Embraced" his Nazi Ideology .. We seem to be living in Hitler's Germany ,haven't we learned from History? Please VOTE BLUE ,To Keep Our Democracy Alive.....
Victoria Australia 2021!
The nazi would of hated me. I would. Be a no1 on there hit list
I’d like to see a doco about the Roma/Gypsy community in WW2……..always lots about everyone else but in all my 74 years I’ve never seen anything about them. That feels kinda shameful and disrespectful…….
Good for them it’s a shame that they didn’t have any more arms 🙏
Show the soccer team and the swimming pools.
Did any of the Ghettos uprisings succeed?
Those who don't condone violence as a form of resistance as well as peaceful means need to read more
No. Nothing like.
When I was a kid late 40,s early 50s I lived in a manly Jewish neighborhood on the south side of Chicago .The fish monger was a partisan in Poland and he use to tell us kids stories all the time .One of the things he use to tell use is that the poles where almost as bad as the Germans and he hated both .
Sure... Poland were as bad as Germany...
Everyone was antisemitic from Russia to France. Poland was not an exception, but they had laws to protect Jewish poles.
Pogrom was a common thing out of Poland, especially in Soviet Russia and Ukraine, not in Poland. I remember my polish grandmother telling that in Ukraine they thought that Jewish bread was made with Christian's blood.
Many Jews fled Germany to Poland in the 30's, so I guess poles weren't as bad as germans.
That is sadly correct...... Even after the war there were programs in poland
184 calories is about 1/20th of the calories you need. Small correction. But you're off by a magnitude of 5.
About one tenth for most women
Normally I would dislike the murdering of guards and I would say “they were just tryna earn money” but this is differen. To hell
With them
Are you saying that the average person needs over 18,000 calories per day? This assertion is not consistent with any information I've ever come across before
I think your calorie math isn’t mathing 😅
yo what is that math, 184 kcal isnt 1% of a daily intake
For all of the people here in the United States that think they're going to somehow overthrow the government with their little peashooters let this be an example that though an attempt may be brave I believe the more intelligent thing would be to leave the country that is trying to be tyrannical