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October 19th, 2026

A Dive into Jewish Resistance

During the Holocaust Instructed by Robert Holden

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Please note that graphic content may be shown.

A Further Examination of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

It is a mistake to assume that most Jews went like lambs to the slaughter during the Holocaust. Since we have examined resistance of all types during the Holocaust in the slate of programs given in the past, I told everyone last year that we would get to see The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and its effects on both Jewish and Nazi morale.

Hollywood frequently gets it wrong, but this time, like The Pianist by Roman Polanski, there certainly was resistance on non-Jews, but we need to more closely examine how Jews fought back and resisted Nazi oppression. Jon Avnet did a fantastic job developing  and directing this  film in a semi-documentary style. Jewish Men and Women are fighting back with rifles and bombs from the Warsaw Ghetto! Against the SS! (The temerity!)

This is a remarkable story of undaunted heroism. It is a fact-based tale that stirs the emotions and touches the heart. Since the film is nearly 3 hours in its original form, certain parts will be fast forwarded in order to see and discuss the film.

Mr. Robert Holden is a retired Ocean City Gifted/talented teacher (ret.-2006) and retired Senior Adjunct Professor of History, teaching WC 1, WC 2, and his own created Holocaust and Genocide Studies Course at ACCC’s Cape May County campus. (ret. -2016)

He is on the board of the SJHC, the HPSUT and the Seaville Friends Meeting.

He has published several secondary history curriculum guides and two books, Upper Township and its Ten Villages and Visas to Shanghai (about the Chinese diplomat, Feng-Shan Ho who saved thousands of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust by writing them exit visas), both of which are available to check out from the library.

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