While the basic facts of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising are relatively well known, few are aware of the numerous other instances of Jewish resistance against the Third Reich, according to Mosaic, an online Jewish news site. A new exhibit at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London aims to set the record straight. The exhibit makes clear that in every European country which fell under Nazi rule, Jews resisted the Germans, their allies and their collaborators.

Warsaw and Bialystok, where several hundred Jewish fighters launched a short-lived uprising in August 1933, were just two of the seven major and 45 smaller ghettos in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union, where Jewish underground groups operated. In Krakow, Vilna, Kovno, Bedzin, and Czestochowa, Jews took up arms against their persecutors

The Minsk ghetto also saw an audacious effort to smuggle out Jews and sabotage German factories. The exhibition highlights the story of Mikhail Gebelev, who organized mass escapes, and helped 10,000 of the 100,000 imprisoned there successfully get away.