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Donald Niewyk's book The Holocaust

istance to the Nazi goal of killing all Jews, because by their acts these prisoners' lengthened their own lives. Yehuda Bauer quotes Henri Michel's definition of resistance as "the maintenance of self-respect" (Bauer 149). Bauer rejects the definition, however, noting the ruthlessness of Nazi determination. Bauer also rejects Raul Hilberg's limit of resistance to armed resistance. Rather, Bauer defines Jewish resistance as "any group action, consciously taken in opposition to known or surmised laws, actions, or intentions directed against the Jews by the Germans and their supporters" (149). Bauer details the difficulty, though not complete absence of Jewish armed resistance, pa

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