Resistance Movements
The French Maquis, Yugoslav Partisans, Dutch, Polish — and the terrible price they paid.
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Resistance Movements
The Partisan Who Brought His Three-Year-Old Into the Forest
A Jewish father carried his young daughter throughBelorussian forests to keep her from the Einsatzgruppen
In the winter of 1941, a Jewish doctor named Yosef Karpovich fled into the Naliboki Forest in Belorussia with his wife, his eight-year-old son, and his three-ye…
Resistance Movements
The Orchestra That Played in Auschwitz
Fifty women forced to play cheerful music at the camp gate while their fellows marched to the gas
The women's orchestra of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted of about 50 musicians, mostly Jewish prisoners, who were forced to play every morning at 5:30 AM — in free…
Resistance Movements
The French Maquis and the Lost Battalion at Glieres: 465 Men vs. 10,000 Germans
465 French resistance fighters held a mountain plateau against 10,000 German and Vichy troops
The Battle of the Glieres Plateau was one of the most dramatic and tragic episodes of the French Resistance. In February 1944, 465 maquisards — French resistanc…