Resistance and rescue

Resistance to the Holocaust included armed uprisings (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April-May 1943, prisoner uprisings at Treblinka and Sobibor), partisan groups in forests, and the work of rescuers who sheltered Jews. Notable rescuers included:

• Raoul Wallenberg: Swedish diplomat in Budapest who issued Swedish protective passports to tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews in 1944
• Oskar Schindler: German industrialist who saved approximately 1,200 Jews by employing them in his factories
• Chiune Sugihara: Japanese diplomat in Lithuania who issued thousands of transit visas to Jewish refugees
• The villagers of Le Chambon: French Protestant village that sheltered approximately 5,000 Jews

Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl whose diary recorded her family's years in hiding in Amsterdam, became one of the best-known individual victims of the Holocaust. She and her family were betrayed, deported, and most died in concentration camps.