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Adler, H. G. Der Kampf gegen die “Endlösung der Judenfrage.” Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Heimatdienst, 1958.
Ainsztein, Reuben. Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1974.
Altman, Linda Jacobs. Resisters and Rescuers: Standing Up Against the Holocaust. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2003.
Anflick, Charles. Resistance: Teen Partisans and Resisters Who Fought Nazi Tyranny. New York: Rosen Publishers, 1999.
Arad, Yitzhak. The Partisan: From the Valley of Death to Mt. Zion. New York: Holocaust Library, 1979.
Aronowicz, Judith, and Ephraïm Rozen, eds. Célébrations dans la tourmente: La résistance spirituelle dans les ghettos et les camps de concentration: Témoignages. Lagrasse: Editions Verdier, 1993.
Bar-Adon, Dorothy, and Pesach Bar-Adon. The Jewish Partisans. Merhavia: Workers Book Guild, 1958.
Bar-Adon, Dorothy, and Pesach Bar-Adon. Jews Against Hitler: Appeal and Report of the International Conference of Jews Held in Moscow, August 24, 1941. London: Anglo-Russian Parliamentary Committee, 1941.
Bauer, Yehuda. The Holocaust in Historical Perspective. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978.
Bauer, Yehuda. The Jewish Emergence from Powerlessness. Toronto-Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1979.
Bauer, Yehuda. Jewish Reactions to the Holocaust. Tel Aviv: Mod Books, 1989.
Bauer, Yehuda. They Chose Life: Jewish Resistance in the Holocaust. New York: American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations, 1973.
Bauer, Yehuda, and Nathan Rotenstreich, eds. The Holocaust as Historical Experience: Essays and a Discussion. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1981.
Ben-David, Yehudah. Ha-“Haganah” be-Eropah (“Hagana” in Europe). Ramat Efal: ha-Merkaz le-toldot koah ha-magen ha-“Haganah”: Tag hotsaah la-or, 1995.
Borisov, J. Palestine Underground: The Story of the Jewish Resistance. New York: Judea Publishing Company, 1947.
Cohen, Asher, and Yehoyakim Cochavi, eds. Zionist Youth Movements During the Shoah. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.
Cohen, Monique-Lise, and Jean-Louis Dufour. Les juifs dans la Résistance. Paris: Tirésias, 2001.
Cohen, Rich. The Avengers. New York: Knopf, 2000.
Davis, Mac. Jews Fight Too! New York: Jordon Publishing Company, 1945.
Davies, Raymond Arthur. Odyssey Through Hell. New York: L.B. Fischer, 1946.
Dawidowicz, Lucy. A Holocaust Reader. New York: Behrman House, 1976.
Derech, Shlomo, and Zvi Shner, eds. Dapim le-heker ha-Sho'ah veha-mered (Pages in the research of the Holocaust and Jewish resistance). Series 2, Collection 1-2. Tel Aviv: Ghetto Fighters' House, 1969.
Druks, Herbert. Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust. New York: Irvington, 1983.
Dunin-Wasowicz, Krzysztof. Ruch oporu w hitlerowskich obozach koncentracyjnych 1933-1945. Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawn, Naukowe, 1979.
Elkins, Michael. Forged in Fury. New York: Ballantine Books, 1971.
Fischel, Jack R. The Holocaust. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Glick, Susan. Heroes of the Holocaust. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 2002.
Goldfarb, Tsevi. Ad kav ha-kets (Until the final line). Tel Aviv: Ghetto Fighters' House, 1980.
Gottfried, Ted. Heroes of the Holocaust. Brookfield, CT: Twenty-First Century Books, 2001.
Gottlieb, Roger S. A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1999.
Granatstein, Yechiel, and Mosheh Kahanovich, eds. Leksikon ha-gevurah (Lexicon of heroism). Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1965.
Grossman, C. u. a, ed. Sefer hapartisanim hajehudim–Das Buch der jüdischen Partisanen. Jerusalem, 1958. 2 vols.
Grubsztein, Meir, ed. Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust: Proceedings of the Conference on Manifestations of Jewish Resistance, Jerusalem, April 7-11, 1968. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1971.
Gurewitsch, Bonnie, ed. Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998.
Gutman, Israel. Ba-'alatah uva-ma'avak: Pirke-'iyun ba-Sho'ah uva-hitnagdut ha-Yehudit (Rising in struggle: Chapters of analysis in the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust). Tel Aviv; Jerusalem: The Workers' Press and the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at Hebrew University, 1985.
Gutman, Israel. The Heroism of the Jewish People in the Second World War. Tel Aviv: The International Quiz on the Heroism of the Jewish People, 1985.
Gutman, Israel. The Holocaust and Resistance: An Outline of Jewish History in Nazi-Occupied Europe (1933-1945). Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1972.
Gutman, Israel, and Livia Rotkirchen, eds. The Catastrophe of European Jewry: Antecedents, History, Reflections: Selected Papers. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1976.
Gutman, Yisrael, and E. Zuroff. Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1977.
Heuberger, Georg, ed. Im Kampf gegen Besatzung und “Endlösung.” Widerstand der Juden in Europa 1939-1945: Eine Ausstellung des Jüdischen Museums der Stadt Frankfurt am Main 26.April-29.Juli 1995. Frankfurt am Main: Jüdisches Museum, 1995.
Hirschler, Gertrude, and Simon Zucker, eds. The Unconquerable Spirit: Vignettes of the Jewish Religious Spirit the Nazis Could Not Destroy. New York: Zachor Institute, 1980.
Housden, Martyn. Resistance and Conformity in the Third Reich. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.
Ingber, Avraham, et al. Mul ha-oyev ha-Natsi: Lohamim mesaprim 1939–1945 (Face to face with the Nazi enemy: Fighters tell their story). Tel Aviv: Association of Disabled Veterans of the War with the Nazis, 1986 <1967>.
Ivianski, Zeev. Mered shel Bedidut: Iyunim (The lonely rebellion). Tel Aviv: Masuah and Bet Lohame ha-Getaot, 1993.
Kahn, Leon. No Time to Mourn: A True Story of a Jewish Partisan Fighter. Vancouver: Laurelton Press, 1978.
Kaye, Ira. The Holes in the Net: Rescue of Jews During the Holocaust, 1940-1945. Chevy Chase, MD: I. Kaye, 1992.
Kehr, Helen, and Ilse R. Wolff, eds. Persecution and Resistance Under the Nazis. London: Institute of Contemporary History, 1978.
Kissener, Michael, Harm-Hinrich Brandt, and Wolfgang Altgeld, eds. Widerstand in Europa: Zeitgeschichtliche Erinnerungen und Studien. Konstanz: UVK, Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1995.
Kohn, Moshe M., ed. Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust. Jerusalem, 1971.
Kowalski, Isaac, ed. Anthology on Armed Jewish Resistance, 1939-1945. Brooklyn: Jewish Combatants Publishers House, 1986. 4 vols.
Langbein, Hermann (trans. Harry Zohn). Against All Hope: Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1938-1945. New York: Continuum, 1996.
Laska, Vera. Nazism, Resistance and Holocaust in World War II: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1985.
Laska, Vera, ed. Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
The Last Stand: Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe and the Role of the Labor Zionist Movement. New York: Poale Zion Organization of America, 1944.
Levine, Allan Gerald. Fugitives of the Forest. New York, Toronto: Stoddart, 1998.
Levin, Nora. The Holocaust Years: The Nazi Destruction of European Jewry 1933-1945. Malabar, FL: R. E. Krieger, 1990.
Levin, Nora. Rescue and Resistance by Jewish Youth During the Holocaust. Philadelphia: Memorial Committee for the Six Million Jewish Martyrs, 1983.
Levy, Patricia. Survival and Resistance. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2001.
Lustiger, Arno. Zum Kampf auf Leben und Tod!: Das Buch vom Widerstand der Juden 1933-1945. 1st ed. Cologne: Kiepenheur & Witsch, 1994.
Marrus, Michael Robert. The Holocaust in History. New York: Meridian, 1989.
Marrus, Michael Robert, ed. The Nazi Holocaust: Historical Articles on the Destruction of European Jews. Vol. 7: Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1989.
Masters, Peter. Striking Back: A Jewish Commando’s War Against the Nazis. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1997.
McDonough, Frank. Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Meltzer, Milton. Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
Michel, Henri. La Résistance juive dans la Résistance européenne. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1968.
Michel, Henri. The Shadow War: European Resistance, 1939-1945. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
Nirel, Haim. Haredim mul Shoah: Haashamot ha-haredin kelape ha-Tsiyonut ba-aharayut la-shoah. Jerusalem: Karmel, 1997.
Novitch, Miriam, ed. Spiritual Resistance: Art from Concentration Camps, 1940-1945. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1981.
Nurnberg, Ralph. The Fighting Jew. New York, 1945.
Parson, Patti. Not Like Sheep: The Fight for Humanity and History. Washington, DC: Temple Micah, Social Action Committee, 2001.
Peisakhovich, Aron. Evrei v agenturnoi razvedke v period vtoroi mirovoi voiny. Tel Aviv: Elgraf, 2000.
Phayer, Michael, and Eva Fleischner, eds. Cries in the Night: Women Who Challenged the Holocaust. Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1997.
Prager. Moshe. Eleh she-lo nikhneu: Korot tenuat-meri Hasidit ba-getaot: be-Tosefet tamtsit korot milhemet ha-hashmadah be-Yahadut Eropah be-mea htaarikhim: Megilat ha-Shoah, nispahot. 3rd ed. Bene Berak: Netsah, 1997.
Rapaport, Louis. Shake Heaven and Earth: Peter Bergson and the Struggle to Rescue the Jews of Europe. Jerusalem; New York: Gefen, 1999.
Reinharz, Jehuda, ed. Living with Antisemitism: Modern Jewish Responses. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1987.
Rescue and Resistance: Portraits of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1999.
Resistance During the Holocaust. Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1997.
Ridarelli, Carol Marie. Memories of the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance. Newtown, CT: C.M. Ridarelli, 1990.
Rivlin, Gerschon, ed. Mul haojew hanazi. Tel Aviv, 1961-1986. 3 vols.
Rohrlich, Ruby, ed. Resisting the Holocaust. Oxford; New York: Berg, 1998.
Ronen, Avihu, and Cochavi Yehoyakim, eds. Guf shelishi yahid: Biyografyot shel havre tenu'ot ha-no'ar bi-tekafut ha-Shoah (Third person singular: Biographies of youth movements' activists during the Holocaust), vol. 1. Israel: Moreshet; Yad Ya'ari: Ghetto Fighters' House, 1994.
Rosenfeld, Harvey, and Eli Zborowski, eds. A Legacy Recorded: An Anthology of Martyrdom and Resistance. New York: Martyrdom and Resistance, 1994.
Schwarz, Leo W., ed. The Root and the Bough: The Epic of an Enduring People. New York: Rinehart, 1949.
Shuter, Jane. Resistance to the Nazis. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2003.
Stadtler, Bea. The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance. New York, 1974.
Steinberg, Lucien. The Jews Against Hitler: Not as a Lamb. London: Gordon & Cremonesi, 1978.
Strobl, Ingrid. Die Angst kam erst danach: Jüdische Frauen im Widerstand in Europa 1939-1945. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1998.
Suhl, Yuri, ed. They Fought Back: The Story of Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe. New York: Schocken Books, 1975.
Syrkin, Marie. Blessed Is the Match: The Story of Jewish Resistance. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1948.
Szner, Zvi, ed. Extermination and Resistance: Historical Records and Source Material. Haifa: Ghetto Fighters' House, 1958.
Tec, Nechama. Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Trunk, Isaiah. Jewish Responses to Nazi Persecution: Collective and Individual Behavior in Extremis. New York: Stein and Day, 1979.
Trunk, Isaiah. Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
Unger, Menasheh. Der gaystiker vidershtand fun Yidn in getos un lagern (Spiritual resistance of the Jews in ghettos and camps). Tel Aviv: Ha-Menorah, 1970.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resistance. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1993.
Weber, Jack. Saving Children: Diary of a Buchenwald Survivor and Rescuer. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1996.
Weichselfisch, Efraim. Nashim Yehudiyot lohamot be-Milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniyah. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2000.
Articles
Arad, Yitzhak. “The Armed Jewish Resistance in Eastern Europe: Its Unique Conditions and its Relations with the Jewish Councils (Judenräte) in the Ghettos.” In The Holocaust and History, edited by Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J. Peck, 591-600. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1998.
Bauer, Yehuda. “Forms of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.” In The Nazi Holocaust: Historical Articles on the Destruction of European Jews. Vol. 7: Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust, edited by Michael R. Marrus, 34-48. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1989.
Bauer, Yehuda. “Resistance During the Holocaust.” Jewish Spectator 47:2 (1982): 44-48.
Bauer, Yehuda. “Was There a Jewish Resistance Movement?” Yalkut Moreshet 36 (1983): 44-51 (Hebrew).
Baumel, Judith. “Parachuting to Their People: The Operation of the Parachutist-Emissaries During World War II in Historical Perspective.” Yad Vashem Studies 25 (1996): 137-80.
Blumenthal, Nachman, and J. Kermish. “Jews in the War Against the Nazis.” Jewish Combat 2:4 (1981): 5-12.
Braun, A.Z., and Dov Levin. “Factors and Motivations in Jewish Resistance.” Yad Vashem Bulletin 2 (1957): 4-5.
Cholavski, Shalom. “Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.” Yalkut Moreshet 49 (1990): 21-29 (Hebrew).
Cholavski, Shalom. “Partisans and Ghetto Fighters as an Active Force Among the Survivors.” Yalkut Moreshet 41 (1986): 144-152 (Hebrew).
Datner, Szymon. “Masn bavafnte aroystretung fun Yidn beys der tsveyter velt-milkhume.” (“Mass military performance of Jews during the Second World War”) Bleter far Gesszichtem 21 (1983): 85-112.
Eck, Nathan. “Jewish and European Resistance.” Yad Vashem Bulletin 8/9 (1962).
Fackenheim, Emil. “The Spectrum of Resistance During the Holocaust: An Essay in Description and Definition.” Modern Judaica 2:2 (1982): 113-30.
Feingold, Henry. “Some Thoughts on the Resistance Question.” Reconstructionist 44:14 (1978): 7-11.
Goldschmidt, J. “Martyrdom and Heroism.” Orthodox Jewish Life 29:1 (1961): 38-46.
Gottlieb, Roger S. “The Concept of Resistance: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.” Social Theory and Practice. 9:1 (1983): 31-49.
Gottlieb, Roger. “Remembrance and Resistance: Philosophical and Personal Reflections on the Holocaust.” Social Theory and Practice 14 (Spring 1988): 25-40.
Gross, Jan. “Historians of Jewish Resistance.” Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual 5 (1988): 227-39.
Handlin, Oscar. “Jewish Resistance to the Nazis.” Commentary 34:5 (1962): 398-405.
Harris, Lis. “The Jewish Resistance.” World Policy Journal 10:2 (Summer 1993): 10-24.
Hausner, Gideon. “They Fought Without Hope: New Light on the Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe.” Jewish Digest 13:2 (1967): 21-27.
Houlihan, Michael. “The Part Played by Resistance Movements.” History Today 34 (June 1984): 23-26.
Karpf, Ruth, and Judson Teller. “The Jews Fight Back.” American Mercury 58:246 (1944): 698-703.
Kulka, Erich. “Attempts by Jewish Escapees to Stop Mass Extermination.” Jewish Social Studies 47:3 (1985): 295-306.
Kwiet, Konrad. “Problems of Jewish Resistance Historiography.” Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 24 (1979): 37-60.
Lang, Berel. “Why Didn't They Resist?” Reconstructionist 41:10 (1976): 7-12.
Marrus, Michael. “Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust.” Journal of Contemporary History 30:1 (January 1995): 83-110.
Michel, Henri. “Jewish Resistance.” World Jewry 16:1 (1973): 12-13.
Rosenberg, Bernhardt. “They Went Like Sheep to the Slaughter and Other Fictions of the Holocaust.” Martyrdom and Resistance 10:2 (1983): 4-16.
Saperstein, Yitshak. “...Like Sheep?” Jewish Observer 11:8 (1976): 12-14.
Schappes, M. U. “Resistance is the Lesson.” Jewish Life 2:6 (1948): 11-14.
Shneiderman, S. L. “They Never Stopped Fighting.” Congress Bi-Weekly 32:12 (September 20, 1965): 9-11.
Slonim, R. “Did Jews Go Like Lambs to the Slaughter?” Jewish Digest 27:2 (1981): 20-29.
Steckel, Charles. “Courage and Cowardice.” Jewish Spectator 27:1 (1962): 7-10.
Suhl, Yuri. “Jewish Resistance with the Pen: How Jewish Writers Fought the Nazi Terror.” Jewish Currents 19:8 (1965): 17-19.
Tec, Nechama. “Jewish Resistance: Facts, Omissions, and Distortions.” Occasional Paper, Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance, Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1997.
Unsdorfer, S. B. “Resistance.” Orthodox Jewish Life 31:4 (1964): 20-25.
Weinstein, Norman. “On Songs of the Jewish Resistance.” Tikkun 5:4 (1990): 45-76.
