NY Theatrical Premiere
Q&A Details
- Fri April 12, 7:00pm: with Co-Director/Executive Producer Paula S. Apsell and film participants Steven Meed, MD and Rita Meed, Ph.D.
- Sat April 13, 7:00pm: with Co-Director/Executive Producer Paula S. Apsell and film participants Steven Meed, MD and Rita Meed, Ph.D.
- Sun April 14, 4:00pm: with Co-Director/Executive Producer Paula S. Apsell and JTS Professor of Jewish History, David Fishman, Ph.D.
- Mon April 15, 7:00pm: with Co-Director/Executive Producer Paula S. Apsell and NYU Professor of Holocaust Studies, Avinoam Patt, Ph.D.
We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Instead, it’s widely believed “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter.” Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the U.S., Resistance – They Fought Back provides a much-needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity. There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps, and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests. Everywhere in Eastern Europe, Jews waged campaigns of non-violent resistance against the Nazis.