Why didn't Jews fight back at concentration camps? Lot's would've died but much less than in the gas chambers

Question

I mean they just took it! Didn't stand-up for themselves, they let their children and women be killed!

1. Yes, it is a serious question
2. Yes, I believe the Holocaust did happen
3. No, I am not blaming Jews for the Holocaust.
4. Better to die fighting, than to live oppressed
5. I believe one must help him/herself also, and not to leave everything up to God. There is a saying in Spanish “Ayúdate, que Dios te ayudará”, Help yourself, for God will also help you”
6. We do have free will and an instinct to survive.
7. Mayans, Aztecs, Incans, fought the Spanish conquistadors, they did not died gently, they died fighting

Answer 1

Actually the Jewish community did fight back the Germans. The most famous incident was called the Warsaw Ghetto. A group of Jews smuggled guns, and made bombs. This incident lasted for several days, until the Germans murdered them all. The only reason they didn't stand for themselves is because they were scared and they believed the Allys would save them all. The U.S. still denied info about the Holocaust. But eitherway they did tried to surrive, some escaped, and several killed the Germans during this time period. Both genders were seperated. In addition some went to different camps, Death Camps, Labor camps. It was rough and there is nothing for them to do.

Chaotic time period.

Answer 2

I cant believe some of the answers to this question!. Is Brainstorm the only person who has actually read on this subject and knows what they are talking about?

Please take a look at the Warsaw Ghetto revolts, and the revolts that took place at Sobibor - which forced the closure of Sobibor and its total destruction by the Nazis. Please also look at what happened at Auschwitz - that they were able to smuggle a camera into the camp and take pictures of what was happening.

Alot has been said about Jews going to the gas chambers like Sheep to the slaughter - but it has to be remembered what the definition of resistance is - both active and passive resistance.

It also has to be remembered that the Nazis singled out people who could not fight back - the poor, the defenseless such as women and children.The Nazis were cowards - picking on people who were unarmed and defenceless.

Why did Six million people die? Not because the jews would not fight back - but because the world turned its back on the jews and left them to the murdered. The world knew what Hitler was about as early as 1934 when a book was released about what was happening in Dachau.

The world also refused to accept the Jewish refugees fleeing aboard the St Louis.

The evil of Hitler and National socialism and the cowardice of the world to help the jews helped Hitler to murder 6 million defenceless, innocent women and children.

Answer 3

Actually a lot of them did try to resist as much as possible. If a large group of them was faced by a machine gunner or a firing squad they would sometimes try to charge them and turn the guns on their captors or throw dirt in their faces to attempt escape. Also in some of the boxcars they were being hauled in some would remove nails from some of the floor boards so others could escape.

Those who were sent to V2 missle plants would screw up the guidance system in the missles by peeing allover the gyroscopes and the scientists would actually still install the gyroscopes unaware of the tampering. The giant missles would then come down on the factory. While it killed the tamperer it also took out the guards, scientists, and anyone else in the factory too.

Answer 4

This happened twice at Treblinka and Sobibor where the jews revolted killing some of the guards and some actually escaped.
The problem at Auschwitz was that most of them were killed as soon as they arrived, before they had time to realise what was happening. The rest realising they had been spared for the moment just concentrated on surviving. Some Jews co-operated with the Nazis to get small privileges for themselves by supervising the rest of the prisoners, they would have told the Nazis of any plans for revolt.
There was also the religious element involved with the rabbis telling them to accept it because it was god's will.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

You already received several good answers.

I want to add three aspects:

- It was really hard for the armies of the three strongest military powers of the time besides Nazi Germany (the USA, UK and USSR) to defeat Nazi Germany, which was really very mighty at that time. It took them several years and millions of Allied soldiers had to pay with their lives for it. I don't know how you could expect a small scattered minority without any army or central organisation to be able to defend themselves against such an overmight. And there were Jews fighting in the Allied armies too.

- The Soviet POWs and the political prisoners of the concentration camps could not defend themselves against the Nazis either, although these groups consisted unlike the Jews exclusively of people who were trained to fight and to resist. 3 million Soviet POWs were killed in German war captivity, most of them were simply kept behind barbed wire and starved to death and many were shot or gassed. These men had fought before, they knew how to fight, but when they were in German war captivity they could not fight anymore because they were disarmed and starving. The political prisoners were in the concentration camps because they had resisted the Nazis, but in the concentration camps they were helpless too like all others.

- There were more uprisings than there have been mentioned here before, I give you some links below. But keep in mind that it was rarely possible at all to fight back, and if, the fighters had no chance to save their lives but fought in order to die as fighters and and not as passive victims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto_uprising
http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1998-no-frames/treblinka-uprising.htm
http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_yad/magazine/data6/Sobibor.html
http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_yad/magazine/magazine_new/mag_35/Their.html

Answer 7

I'm sure that if many Jews had the choice of standing up for themselves, they'd take it. But concentration camps did not make headlines until it was too late. Jews were often not informed of where they were going when they were forced onto trains, so they were less likely to revolt. Also, because the Nazis had plenty of weapons on hand, nobody was really inclined to fight back because they didn't have much of a chance. Once the Jews were in the concentration camps, security was high and escapes would have been difficult. I doubt this was your intention, but we certainly can't blame the Holocaust on the Jews themselves.

Answer 8

Jews Fight Back

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Not everyone was killed. Most didn't expect to end up in the gas chambers. And families were quickly separated, so people didn't even know where their wives and children were. They tried to stay alive so they could get back to their families. There were many guards, and they were well-armed. They didn't fight for the same reasons prisoners in modern prisons don't. While you're alive, there's hope, but charging a machine gun is sure death.