Lessons From the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

" "In Warsaw, as elsewhere, the key impediment to resistance was shortage of arms. According to Holocaust historian Abram L. Sachar: “The indispensable need, of course, was arms. As soon as some Jews, even in the camps themselves, obtained possession of a weapon, however pathetically inadequate—a rifle, an ax, a sewer cover, a homemade bomb—they used it and often took Nazis with them to death.' Thus, the difference between resistance and submission depended very largely upon who was in possession of the arms that back up the will to do or die."