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In nine pages this paper examines how the moral and physical resistance of Jews during the Holocaust is portrayed in Jurek Becker and Nechama Tec’s books Jacob (Jakob) the Liar and Defiance: The Bielski Partisans in and in Frank Beyer and Edward Zwick’s 1975 and 2008 film adaptations of these texts. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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was a time when German Jews were literally hunted down like animals by Nazis intent upon herding them into extermination camps where they would receive unspeakable tortures that usually ended
in death except for those lucky enough to escape. Needless to say, resistance movements (also known as freedom fighters) were necessary to ensure the survival of those Jews who
had yet to be captured. These groups would of moral or physical resistance to the Nazi aggression with moral resistance typically taking the form of civil disobedience or nonviolence
whereas physical resistance often featured aggressive or violent clashes. In her text entitled Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust, Annette Insdorf observed that the Jewish solidarity against Adolf Hitlers
Nazi oppression was so strong that this rendered any type of open revolt impossible because such a public stance threatened to annihilate the entire Jewish community (139). Therefore, Jewish
resistance had to organize and exist beneath the Nazi radar so to speak in underground networks. The active members of the resistance movement understood the odds that were against
them; any exposure of their activities would result in swift retaliation from their oppressors and certain death for them. The late Holocaust scholar Terrence Des Pres remarked that Jewish
resistance might not have been a huge revolt; these movements were instead several revolts with participants often paying the ultimate price for their rebellion. Des Pres observed, "To live
was to resist, every day, all the time, and in addition to dramatic events like the burning of Treblinka and Sobibor there were many small revolts in which all perished"
(qtd. in Insdorf 139). Auschwitz survivor, Polish-born author Jurek Becker (1937-1997), included his own recollections of the Holocaust in his acclaimed 1969 novel - which had initially been rejected
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