Jewish Combat Organization

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Jewish resistance organization World War II resistance movement underground military organization

The Jewish Combat Organization was a World War II Jewish resistance group in Nazi-occupied Poland, best known for leading armed resistance during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Jewish resistance organization → World War II resistance movement → underground military organization →
activeIn	Warsaw Ghetto →
armedBy	Organization of the Polish underground resistance against Nazi Germany → surface form: "Polish resistance" weapons smuggled into Warsaw Ghetto →
conflict	World War II →
cooperatedWith	Home Army (Armia Krajowa) → surface form: "Polish Home Army" Polish Underground State → surface form: "Polish underground"
country	Poland →
dateFormed	1942 →
dissolvedAfter	suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising →
formedAs	coalition of Jewish youth movements →
foughtAgainst	German occupation forces →
foughtIn	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising →
goal	armed resistance against deportations → defense of Jews in Warsaw Ghetto →
hasAbbreviation	ŻOB →
hasLeader	Marek Edelman → Mordechai Anielewicz → Yitzhak Zuckerman → Zivia Lubetkin →
hasPart	Akiva → Bund youth movement → Communist Jewish groups → Dror → Hashomer Hatzair → Poale Zion → surface form: "Jewish Socialist Union" Poale Zion → surface form: "Left Poale Zion"
hasTypeOfMember	Jewish youth activists → ghetto fighters →
headquartersLocation	Warsaw →
ideology	Zionism → left-wing politics → socialism →
language	Polish → Yiddish →
nativeLabel	Jewish Combat Organization → surface form: "Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa"
notableEvent	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising → surface form: "April 1943 uprising in Warsaw Ghetto"
notableFor	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising →
operatedIn	German occupation of Poland → surface form: "Nazi-occupied Poland"
operationalStatusDuring1943	clandestine →
opposedBy	Schutzstaffel (SS) → surface form: "German SS" German police units → Nazi Germany →
primaryEnemyPolicyOpposed	Nazi extermination of Jews →
religion	Judaism →
usedTactic	armed resistance → guerrilla warfare → urban insurgency →

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jewish Military Union → cooperatedWith → Jewish Combat Organization →

Marek Edelman → memberOf → Jewish Combat Organization →

Mordechai Anielewicz → memberOf → Jewish Combat Organization →

Jewish Combat Organization → nativeLabel → Jewish Combat Organization →

this entity surface form: "Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa"

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising → organizedBy → Jewish Combat Organization →

Warsaw Ghetto → resistanceOrganization → Jewish Combat Organization →

this entity surface form: "Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB)"