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Resistance: They Fought Back

20240.0 / 1090 min

Documentary, History

Overview

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.

Cast

Joel de la Fuente

Marcel Nadjari

Lisa Loeb

Ruzka Korchak

Andrew Kishino

Mordechai Anielewicz

Mark Zeisler

Emanuel Ringelblum

Julie Benko

Vita Kempner

David Rosenberg

Marek Edelman

Corey Stoll

Dianna Agron

Maggie Siff

Crew

Kirk Wolfinger

Director

Owen Palmquist

Producer

Ezra Wolfinger

Director of Photography

Ori Eisen

Executive Producer

Richard Freund

Executive Producer

Carrie Faverty

Casting

Yael Beals

Co-Producer

Richard A. Salomon

Executive Producer

Michael Berenbaum

Executive Producer

Lisa Goodfellow Bowe

Producer

Greg McCleary

Sound

Julie Schubert

Casting

Adam Costa

Director of Photography

Michael J. Bohnen

Executive Producer

Paula S. Apsell

Director

Paula S. Apsell

Writer

Jay Owens

Writer

Mirit Eisen

Executive Producer