Resistance During the Holocaust

PUBLICATIONS

• 1. They Fought Back: The Story of the Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe, Yuri Suhl, ed. NY: Schocken, 1975.

  2. Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith, Aaron Zeitlin, edited and translated by Morris Faierstein, NY: iUniverse, 2007.

  3. Faces of the Uprising (P'nei ha-Mered), Haim Guri and Monia Avrahami

  4. Kaddish, K. Tzetnik, NY: Algemeiner, 1998.

  5. HIdden in Thunder: Perspectives on Faith, Halachah and Leadership During the Holocaust, Esther Farbstein, translated by Deborah Stern, Jerusalem: Mossad Harav Kook, 2007 (2 volumes).

  6. "Yom Kippur: From My Very Bones," as retold by Chanan Morrison on Rav Kook List.

  7. Spiritual Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto, Rachel Kostanian-Danzig, Vilnius: The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, 2004.

  8. The Truth and Nothing but the Truth: Jewish Resistance in Lithuania, Alex Faitelson, Jerusalem: Gefen, 2006.

  9. Scrolls of Testimony, Abba Kovner, translated Eddie Levenston, Philadelphia: JPS, 2001.

  10. Kiddush Hashem: Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Poland During the Holocaust, Shimon Huberband, NJ: Ktav, 1987.

  11. Resistance: Spiritual Resistance, Revolt, Partisans, and the Uprising in the Death Camps, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2004.

  12. Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust, Michael C. Steinlauf, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997.

  13. The Song of the Murdered Jewish People, Yitzhak Katzenelson, Israel: Ghetto Fighters House Museum, 1980.

1. From the Warsaw Ghetto:

   1. • Brave and Desperate: 60 Years Since Warsaw Ghetto Uprising [sic], Danny Dor, editor, Israel: Ghetto Fighters House Museum, 2003.

      • Dignity and Defiance: The Confrontation of Life and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto, Mark Weitzman, ed. Daniel Landes, Adaire Klein, Los Angeles: Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1993.

      • Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto, Michal Grynberg,ed., NY: Henry Holt, 1988.

      • Text in the Face of Destruction: Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto Reconsidered, Jacek Leociak, Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 2004.

      • Sixtieth Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The Testament of Youth, Dialogue and Universalism, vol. XIII, No. 3-4, 2003.

      • Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Israel Gutman, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

2. Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, Rabbi of the Warsaw Ghetto:

   1. • The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, The Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto, Nehemia Polen, NY: Jason Aronson, 1994.

      • Sacred Fire: Torah from the Years of Fury 1939-1942, Rabbi Kalonymos Kalmish Shapira [sic], translated by J. Hershey Worch, edited by Deborah Miller, NY: Jason Aronson, 2004.

      • To Heal the Soul: The Spiritual Journal of a Chasidic Rebbe -- Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, translated and edited Yehoshua Starrett, NY: Jason Aronson, 2004.

      • A Student's Obligation: Advice from the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto , Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, translated by Micha Odenheimer, NY Jason Aronson, 1991.

OTHER RESOURCES

1. Short documentary films by Tomek Wisniewski (available through the Museum of Family History website).

2. House of Life: The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, a film by Allan Miller and Mark Podwal, 2007 (www.houseoflifefilm.com)

3. The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

4. Ghetto Fighters' House Museum