Most of those who succeeded in fleeing from the ghettos and camp, escaping mass executions, or jumping from deportation trains joined the partisans in the forests. In southern and eastern Europe, wherever geographic conditions permitted, armed struggle went on. In western Europe, resistance concentrated on providing Jewish refugees with forged papers, finding them hiding places, and helping them escape to neutral countries. Over one million Jewish men fought as soldiers with the Allied armies. But the symbol of Jewish resistance remains the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an event which the SS immortalized with an illustrated report for their own glorification. . .
Salvation lies in the struggle.
Those who fight for their lives have a chance to save themselves. We rise in the name of the struggle and the lives of the helpless who we wish to save. From an illegal appeal, January 1943 . . Before the beginning of this large-scale operation, the borders of the former Jewish district were sealed off with an external barrier . . . In the first penetration into the ghetto, the Jews and Polish bandits succeeded in repulsing the forces involved, including tanks and armored cars, through a planned attack.