Uprisings and Mass Escapes in Ghettos and Camps

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025

David Silberklang

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Marion Kaplan and

Natalia Aleksiun

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Marion Kaplan: Affiliation:
New York University
Natalia Aleksiun: Affiliation:
University of Florida

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Jews attempted mass escapes and uprisings in many dozens of ghettos and camps during the Holocaust. This chapter discusses armed resistance in ghettos and camps, looking both at the better-known instances such as the Warsaw ghetto uprising or the Sonderkommando revolt at Auschwitz–Birkenau and also at other cases of armed resistance in ghettos such as Białystok, as well as Sobibór and Treblinka death camps, seeking to identify patterns and connections between these instances.

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Warsaw ghetto revolt Judenrat Vilna (Vilnius)escapes women Treblinka Sobibór Auschwitz Zionist

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Information: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 265 - 280

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108900447.019 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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