Jewish underground organizations

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Jewish underground organizations were clandestine resistance groups formed by Jews during World War II to fight Nazi persecution, organize armed resistance, and support the survival and escape of Jewish communities.

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Statements (63)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish resistance movement
clandestine resistance organizations
activeInPeriod Holocaust
World War II
contributedTo Auschwitz Sonderkommando revolt
Bialystok Ghetto Uprising
surface form: Białystok Ghetto Uprising

Sobibor extermination camp uprising
surface form: Sobibor uprising

Treblinka uprising
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
rescue of Jews via escape networks
cooperatedWith French Resistance
Organization of the Polish underground resistance against Nazi Germany
surface form: Polish resistance

Soviet partisans
non-Jewish resistance movements
faced extreme risk of execution if discovered
formedBy Jews under Nazi occupation
hasPurpose fight Nazi persecution
gather intelligence on Nazi activities
maintain Jewish cultural and religious life in secret
organize armed resistance
organize escape of Jews
preserve Jewish honor and dignity
sabotage German military and infrastructure
support survival of Jewish communities
legacy subject of extensive historical research on the Holocaust
symbol of Jewish armed resistance during the Holocaust
maintained clandestine printing presses
secret communication networks
weapons caches
notableExample Bielski partisans
Jewish Military Union
surface form: Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye

Jewish Combat Organization
Jewish Fighting Organization in Vilna Ghetto
Jewish Military Union
Jewish resistance in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Jewish resistance in Białystok Ghetto
Jewish resistance in Kraków Ghetto
Sobibor extermination camp uprising
surface form: Jewish resistance in Sobibor extermination camp

Jewish resistance in Treblinka extermination camp
Jewish resistance in Warsaw Ghetto
Jewish resistance in Łachwa Ghetto
operatedIn Nazi-occupied Belarus
Nazi-occupied France
Axis occupation of Greece
surface form: Nazi-occupied Greece

Hungary in World War II
surface form: Nazi-occupied Hungary

German occupation of Italy
surface form: Nazi-occupied Italy

Nazi-occupied Lithuania
Nazi occupation of the Netherlands
surface form: Nazi-occupied Netherlands

German occupation of Poland
surface form: Nazi-occupied Poland

World War II in Slovakia
surface form: Nazi-occupied Slovakia

Nazi-occupied Ukraine
Axis-occupied Yugoslavia
surface form: Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia

Soviet partisan areas
opposed Nazi Germany
local collaborationist authorities
usedMethod armed uprising in ghettos
clandestine education
establishing escape routes
forging identity documents
partisan warfare in forests
sabotage and bombings
secret political organization
smuggling of weapons

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Żegota cooperatedWith Jewish underground organizations
Anielewicz movement Jewish underground organizations
subject surface form: Mordechai Anielewicz
this entity surface form: Jewish resistance movement