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Resistance Escalates
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"Young resisters defied Nazi laws."

As the war progressed, Barbara, Faye and Shula became increasingly committed to their resistance activities. Barbara continued her work in creating false identity papers and distributing resistance literature. Faye joined the partisans fighting near her home. Shula, engaged in a plot to remove Jews to Palestine, was caught and sent to Auschwitz.

Q: What factors compel certain individuals to engage in active resistance while the majority remains inactive or afraid to take a stand?

What did Barbara mean when she said she was going "underground"?

What circumstances enabled Barbara to participate in resistance in the Netherlands? What role did her dancing career play in carrying out work for resistance? Why was she willing to take the risks of preparing false papers and distributing underground literature?

Why did the partisans allow Faye to join them even though she had no weapon? What did Faye do to make herself a valued member of the partisans?

Shula describes her activities with the Zionist youth in March 1944: "Our resistance wasn't a resistance that we will blow up bridges, our resistance was built on the idea to save as many. . . Jews as we possibly can. "What did she mean by this? How did this goal influence her resistance activities?

What acts of resistance could Barbara, Faye and Shula do because they were women that would have been more difficult for men? Why?

From 1939 through 1945, Nazi Germany spread terror across Europe and Russia. In each country, the genocide of Jews and other condemned groups followed a different timetable. A Jewish girl could still be living in relative freedom in Hungary, while her Polish counterpart was on a train to Auschwitz. When did the Nazis occupy Amsterdam, Budapest and Belarus?