Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution And Murder Of The Jews (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Apart from such organized, violent acts of resistance, and flight, there were many other forms of individual resistance: ghetto-dwellers refused to follow instructions from the Germans, tried to hide in their houses or to barricade them up; in many cases spontaneous attacks by individuals on policemen have also been demonstrated. 246 Shalom Cholawsky and Shmuel Spector have reconstructed individual acts of resistance for White Russia and Volhynia. Spector has assembled figures for twenty-seven towns in Volhynia for which, in the period between May and September 1942, the mass flight of several hundred or several thousand people is documented in each place, particularly in the towns of Dubrovitsa, Rokitno, Tuchin, and Luck as well as in the camps of Poleska and Kostopol. In Tuchin the resistance group set up by the head of the Jewish council set fire to the ghetto and carried out an armed resistance for several days; there were similar revolts in several other places. 247 Spector estimates that mass escapes were successful in another twenty places, and gives the overall figure for people who sought to escape being murdered through flight or by building hiding-places (so-called ‘bunkers’) as 47,500, or a quarter of the total Jewish population of Volhynia at the start of 1942.
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