Resistance: They Fought Back
90 mins
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.
Julie Benko
Vita Kempner
David Rosenberg
Marek Edelman
Paula S. Apsell
Director
Kirk Wolfinger
Director
Paula S. Apsell
Writer
Jay Owens
Writer
Adam Costa
Director of Photography
Ezra Wolfinger
Director of Photography
Greg McCleary
Sound
Carrie Faverty
Casting
Julie Schubert
Casting
Yael Beals
Co-Producer
Michael Berenbaum
Executive Producer
Michael J. Bohnen
Executive Producer
Lisa Goodfellow Bowe
Producer
Mirit Eisen
Executive Producer
Ori Eisen
Executive Producer
Richard Freund
Executive Producer
Owen Palmquist
Producer
Richard A. Salomon
Executive Producer