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Zivia Lubetkin (Resister) Zivia Lubetkin was born in Byten, Poland in 1914. She joined the Labor Zionist Movement at an early age. The Labor Zionist movement is an organization formed for Jewish children and adolescents for educational, social, and ideological development. This organization helped the jews to keep faith in their religion. In her late teens she joined the Zionist Youth Movement Hobonim Dror which takes responsibility for the Jewish population, later on, she became a member of its executive counsel. During the Holocaust her parents went into hiding so they wouldn’t be brought to a concentration camp. In 1942 they were found and shot. Afterwards, she was transported to a ghetto in her town of Byten. While in the ghetto she joined and became one of the leaders in the Jewish underground Warsaw and was the only woman in high command. She fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt and fled through the sewers to continue to fight till the end. “We fought with grenades, guns, iron rods, and light bulbs filled with sulpheric acid,” says Zivia Lubetkin. The Germans set fire to the ghetto yet the resisters managed to escape through the Warsaw sewer systems. Since she had a past of having faith in her religion, she knew that it was right to be fighting for herself and others. She persisted in fighting the Nazi soldiers and she didn't cower from them because she was brought up as a fighter. Zivia was a resister because she was the founder of the (ZOB) Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa which was the Jewish Combat Organization and never gave in to the German power even if she was frightened. She was a combatant, and got many people to believe that they could stand up to the Nazis too. The impact of Zivia Lubetkin’s actions led to people learning to stand up for themselves and believing in what they think is right. She opposed the Nazi’s decisions because they were cruel and was wrong to be annihilating an entire race. Zivia Lubetkin had the courage to stand up to that; even when fighting was getting tough, and people were giving up, she persisted in fighting for herself and for the Jewish rights. Bibliography
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