A number of fighters resisted by escaping from the ghettos into the forests Uprisings occurred at three extermination camps. At Sobibor and Treblinka, prisoners with stolen weapons attacked the SS staff and their Ukrainian auxiliary guards. Most of the rebels were shot, though several dozen prisoners escaped. At Auschwitz, four Jewish women helped Jewish crematorium workers blow up a crematorium. All four rebels were killed. In most Nazi satellite or occupied countries, Jewish resistance focused on aid and rescue.

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