Did Jews go "like sheep to the slaughter"?
If so, why? If not, why not?

• Proposals due; midterm evals. [distributed, bring next time], field trip
• Defining "resistance" (vs. "opposition")
• Discussion of Escape from Sobibor
• Power / Action Grid (moral questions)[distributed, for next time]

Administrative

• Please hand in group proposals
• Field trip to LA: Sunday 8am at bus loop
• meet at MOT at 10:15, LA Holo. Mus. at 2pm
• pack a lunch, bring an ID, but no metal
• E-mail list: now 29/44? Use for Q4?

Escape from Sobibor

• 550 prisoners: 150 stayed, 80 killed during, 170 in dragnet = 150 initial escapees
  95 killed in hiding, 5 in partisan units
  =50 survived until end of war (Leon)
• Time scale: Russian Jews arrived Sept. 23, revolt was Oct. 14, 1943
• Everyday life in the camp: socializing, etc.
• Memory: what one remembers

Examples of Resistance I (recall from course material)

• Riefenstahl
• The Wave
• Kristallnacht
• in Maus
• Euthanasia program
• Designers of Auschwitz
• Wannsee conference
• Milgram experiments
• Ghettos: Rumkowski, Perechodnik, Czerniakow
• Sobibor

Examples of Resistance II

• Warsaw Ghetto (Sept. 1940-Apr/May 1943)
• Nov. 1940: 360,000 sealed in: 3-400 deaths/day
  starvation: 37,000 in 1st year, 43,000 Jan-Sept 1942
• July 22, 1942 "intensified measures"=Treblinka
  300,000 murdered in two months (5000/day)
• July 28: Jewish Combat Org (ZOB) formed
• Oct.: 60,000 left in ghetto
• mid-Jan. 1943: ZOB resisted clearing
• Apr. 19-May 17: stiff resistance (300†, 1000 w.)
• Treblinka uprising, Aug. 2, 1943
• Sobibor Oct. 14; Maidanek "Harvest" Nov. 1943
• Janusz Korczak (Aug. 6, 42); Oneg Shabbat

Defining Resistance

• What is it? (definitions, range)
• Who did it? (groups)
• When did they resist? (situations, conditions)
• How did they resist? (methods)
• Why did they resist? (motives)