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Two Models of Political Organization

Collaboration Versus Resistance

University of Maryland

This article explores some of the psychological and material conditions motivating Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. The author looks at the underground movement in Vilna and the partisan movements in the Russian forests, with specific attention to Tuvia Bielski's family camp of more than 1,200 Jews and the reasons behind its very high survivor rate (95%). The article also examines the relationship between identity and violence, the resurrection of self through violent encounter with the enemy, and the psychological dynamics motivating both resistance and the accommodation policies of the Vilna Judenrat. The political theory of Frantz Fanon is used to draw some group psychological inferences concerning the resistance's use of violence.

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