Two models of political organization - Collaboration versus resistance

This article explores some of the psychological and material conditions mot ivating Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. The author looks at the und erground movement in Vilna and the partisan movements in the Russian forest s, with specific attention to Tuvia Bielski's family camp of more than 1,20 0 Jews and the reasons behind its very high survivor rate (95%). The articl e also examines the relationship between identity and violence, the resurre ction of self through violent encounter with the enemy; and the psychologic al dynamics motivating both resistance and the accommodation policies of th e Vilna Judenrat. The political theory of Frantz Fanon is used to draw some group psychological inferences concerning the resistance's use of violence .