Holocaust Heroes – Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution
Mark Felton charts the uprisings that challenged Hitler’s Final Solution from the ghettos to Treblinka, Auschwitz and Sobibor.
- Author
- Mark Felton
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword
- Price
- £19.99
- ISBN
- 9781783400577
- Published
- 2017
Holocaust Heroes – Resistance to Hitler’s Final Solution by Mark Felton
Mark Felton examines the often overlooked uprisings that challenged Hitler’s Final Solution. From early acts of defiance in ghettos and towns across occupied Europe to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, he charts how prisoners used limited resources to resist deportation and extermination.
The book covers the revolt in Treblinka, the coordinated breakout at Sobibor and the sabotage that shook Auschwitz, highlighting the bravery of men and women who faced almost certain death. Felton shows how escapees regrouped as partisans in forests and mountains, continuing the fight despite brutal reprisals. Nazi responses were swift and deadly, yet these acts of resistance proved that the victims were never passive.
This sobering study acknowledges those who seized any opportunity to fight back, even with little more than small arms and courage. It is a powerful reminder of defiance in the darkest of circumstances.
ISBN 9781783400577. Pen & Sword. £19.99.