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A documentary. Focused on the resistance of Jews to the Nazi regime and its plan to exterminate European Jewry, this documentary is designed to illuminate an all-too-unknown aspect of the conventional Holocaust story. The film's goal is a corrective to the dominant narrative of the Holocaust, one in which Jewish victims quietly went to their fate "like sheep to the slaughter." To the contrary, there were more than ninety armed rebellions in ghettos and concentration camps, thousands of Jewish partisans fighting in the forests, as well as countless examples of non-violent resistance against the Nazis. The...

Director : Kirk Wolfinger, Paula Apsell

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 96

Language : English, Hebrew, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish