HOW ORDINARY JEWS
FOUGHT PERSECUTION
IN HITLER’S GERMANY
USHMM
Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still mostly understood as rare armed-group opposition in the Nazi-occupied east. New research based on a broader definition of resistance, including individual acts, draws from sources ranging from police and court records to survivor testimonies. Hundreds of Jews—women and men of all ages, education levels, and professions—resisted persecution in a wide variety of ways from 1933–1945 in Nazi Germany and annexed Austria.
Join us to learn about the surprisingly widespread individual resistance that obliterates the common view of Jewish passivity under Nazi persecution.
Opening remarks
Dr. Lisa Leff, Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Speaker
Dr. Wolf Gruner, J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-In-Residence, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Founding Director, USC Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Moderator
Dr. Elizabeth Anthony, Visiting Scholars Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites to a public program dedicated to Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. It will take place
on 3 December 2025 at 7 pm ET. Registration is required.
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