Resistance: They Fought Back
PBS WESTERN RESERVE (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):
Tuesday, Jan. 28, at 10 PM
Fusion (WNEO 45.2 / WEAO 49.2):
Monday, Jan. 27, at 10 PM
Saturday, Feb. 1, at noon
Told by survivors, their children, and expert witnesses from the U.S., Israel, and Europe, RESISTANCE: THEY FOUGHT BACK is a revelation based on extensive research of how the Jews of Europe fought back against the Nazis. It uncovers evidence of non-violent methods that served as crucial tools of resistance and evolved into Jewish armed revolts in ghettos, forests and death camps, even as the odds of success were vanishingly small. Today, almost 80 years after the Holocaust, this story remains largely unknown with many believing that “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter.” But this is where the real story begins. Jews did not go as sheep to the slaughter. They fought back. Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the U.S., the documentary provides a much-needed corrective to the myth of Jewish passivity.