The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” (Burke). The Holocaust is a great example of innocent people not standing up for themselves in a time of great need for them to revolt against Hitler and the Nazis. During the Holocaust approximately eleven million “undesirables” had been killed because the Nazis thought that the Aryans were the “perfect race”, so he had just attempted to kill almost everyone else. Though through this blemish on human history, the Jewish had made attempts to revolt against the Germans through both armed and unarmed ways in order to preserve honor and faith.

A few Jewish people in the Warsaw ghetto had made an attempt to revolt against the German soldiers who were guarding them, probably because they realized that they were going to die wherever the trains would have taken them to begin with. They had been highly intelligent in the month long resistance fight by the way they had attacked the …show more content…
“Most generally, spiritual resistance may refer to the refusal to have one’s spirit broken in the midst of the most horrible degradation” (Spiritual). Even though there were so many horrors that had been happening inside of the ghettos and concentration camps, there had been many people who did not have their spirits broken either due to religion or mental fortitude. This shows that people had been able to resist the German rule and live through the Holocaust, even making libraries to educate their children. “Jews smuggled many books and manuscripts into many ghettos for safekeeping, and opened underground libraries in numerous ghettos” (Spiritual). Many adult Jews had taught their children through this library so that they would be able to come out of the ghetto without being ignorant. Though not many children made it out, almost one million Jewish children died in the horrors of the

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