A partisan unit operating in Eastern Slovakia was among the first armed resistance groups established to counter Nazi aggression. The organized resistance movement in Slovakia dates back to 1942.
The Slovak National Uprising in 1944 was an important milestone in Slovak Jewish anti-Nazi resistance. Labor camps for Jews were dissolved and many able-bodied youths became partisans.
During the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, 750 Polish resistance fighters fought off well armed German soldiers for almost a month!
Yet, Poland was also home to all the Nazi death camps, including its largest, Auschwitz.
In the end, approximately 1/2 of all Jews killed in the Holocaust were from Poland.
The Jews of White Russia provided the area with an invaluable work force of laborers and specialized workers. The officers of the German occupation forces were reluctant to eliminate them too quickly.
Unfortunately, their fates were ultimately the same. 66% of the Jews in White Russia were killed in the Holocaust.
Between May and July 1944, the Hungarian government deported about 420,000 people to Auschwitz, of whom the Germans immediately killed 75%!
Due to the Holocaust and emigration after the war, only 70,000 Jews remain in Budapest, Hungary, a city in which over 825,000 Jews inhabited at one time.
Between 25-30,000 Jews went into hiding with the assitance of the Dutch underground.
Approximately 2/3 of all Dutch Jews in hiding survived the Holocaust!
The Dutch underground included 60,000 people with hundreds of thousands more assisting them. They issued false papers, functioned as couriers for documents.
In the spring of 1941, the Germans defeated the Greek army and occupied Greece until October of 1944. The country was divided into 3 zones of occupation.
1. Bulgaria annexed Thrace and eastern Macedonia.
2. Germany occupied western Macedonia, including Thessaloniki, the Aegean Islands, and western Crete.
3. Italy occupied the Dodecanese Islands, the Ionian islands, and a large section of mainland Greece including Athens.