Frank Blaichman And The Holocaust

The Holocaust is the most recognized genocide in modern history, claiming millions of innocent lives, and indiscriminately destroying the livelihood of everybody opposed to the monstrous Nazi party, regardless of whether or not you were of the blonde haired, blue eyed Aryan race that Adolf Hitler had sought to create. Naturally, with the dark tide of oppression, came resistance from the oppressed themselves, the Jewish partisans. This resistance group was formed from the many thousands of the threatened European Jewish, and whether or not they were escapees or the inhabitants of ghettos, deportation camps, and death camps hardly mattered when it it came down to their purpose, aiding their people both physically and spiritually. The Jewish partisan

The Jews in Kamionka were restricted from traveling or trading with anybody outside the city, but despite that, Blaichman constantly left the city, refusing to wear the armbands that the Jews were issued and not having the necessary permits to trade with nearby settlements for the commodities that they were denied in Kamionka, like honey, sugar, chicken, grains, tobacco, and many more farm items. Blaichman had been told by the Jewish council of his city that they would be relocated to the Lubartow ghetto, which made him slip out of Kamionka and hide with a gentile farmer, where he hid there until he received news that instead of the Lubartow ghetto, they were instead deported to an unknown location. He then sought out a group of Jews that he heard was hiding in the surrounding forests, and after two days, he stumbled upon a forest encampment of bunkers and was astonished at the state of their preparedness. They were without weapons or a proper defense unit, and Blaichman incited them to prepare more accordingly, and then during December of 1942, the group acquired weapons from a local Polish farmer. Blaichman, now with a properly armed group, combined with Mieczyslaw Gruber’s group, freshly escaped from Gleiwitz, and formed a formidable group that consisted of Polish army veterans who knew how to use explosives and landmines. Frank

“And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten” (Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference). As stated in Elie Wiesel’s The Perils of Indifference, the act of standing by and watching the world burn is just as bad as the bystander burning the world themselves, and the Jewish partisans were, truly, the example of anti-indifference, with their compounding small actions combining to create a massive movement of rebellion against their common