Greek responses to the Nazis in the mountains and in the camps

The Greek Jews who participated in resistance had a sense of self that superseded the threat of death. Violent resistance was an ancestral Greek tradition that Jews learned about during their increasing Hellinization in school and from service in the Greek national army. The Greek sense of independence and tradition of a 'noble death' were ancient traditions and the Jews had similar, albeit dormant, independent sources in their own tradition that were activated by the Hellenic environment. But most important was a Jewish sense of family and solidarity that formed an important basis for self-help and resistance.