THE INSURRECTION
OF THE TOUGH JEWS

This article concerns the seldom remembered inmate rebellions that took place at various Nazi concentration camps, with particular attention paid to the uprisings at Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor:

“Rebellion was sometimes a matter of individual desperation, of a last-minute decision to sell one’s life dearly. One day a Treblinka prisoner broke from the ranks, shouting, ‘I can’t stand any more!’ and managed to mortally wound a particularly vicious SS sergeant. A naked young woman suddenly broke from a group marching the last hundred meters to the crematorium and made a hopeless dash for the fence. When a Ukrainian guard pursued her, laughing at the notion that a woman already stripped of her clothing could possibly escape, she wrenched his rifle from him and wounded two of her captors.”

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