The Holocaust and the Jewish Resistance Movements

The Jewish community was rebuilding when Hazan was born./nThe Nazis and Soviets partitioned Poland in 1939./nJewish refugees flooded into the town during the Nazi occupation of Poland./nThe Nazis established Jewish ghettos in Polish cities, imposing harsh living conditions./nJewish resistance movements formed in response to Nazi oppression./nHazan was trained in combat by Zionist paramilitaries before the war broke out./nHazan and a group of underground members fled to Vilnus, Lithuania./nHazan's group was briefly imprisoned by Soviet soldiers before continuing their journey./nHazan visited her mother and siblings in Resisture, Soviet-occupied territory./nHazan arrived in Vilnus before the Nazis launched Operation Barbarossa.