Resistance: They Fought Back

2024

English

7.5

100%

Kirk Wolfinger Director

Corey Stoll as Abba Kovner

Mark Zeisler as Emanuel Ringelblum

Romy Rosemont as Esther Raab

Michael Berenbaum as Self - American Jewish University

Maggie Siff as Vladka Meed

We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Instead, it’s widely believed “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter.” Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the U.S., Resistance – They Fought Back provides a much-needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity. There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps, and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests. Everywhere in Eastern Europe, Jews waged campaigns of non-violent resistance against the Nazis.