Shira Deener

Shira Deener is the Director of the Jewish Education Program at Facing History and Ourselves.

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Honor Moments of Resistance on Yom HaShoah

Posted by Shira Deener on April 12, 2018

Seventy-five years ago this month, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. For nearly four weeks, Jews revolted against the Nazis as they entered the ghetto to deport its remaining inhabitants to concentration camps. Although the Nazi’s military prowess proved too powerful for the prisoners' efforts, it became a symbol of resistance that counteracted the often-touted narrative that Jews went to their deaths without a fight. It is no coincidence that today, Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, coincides with this historic moment.

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