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Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Setting the stage: Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust -- Chapter 3. What did the Jews know? -- Chapter 4. Cooperation and collaboration -- Chapter 5. Coping and compliance -- Chapter 6. Evasion -- Chapter 7. Resistance -- Chapter 8. Conclusions -- Appendix 1. Data and archival methods -- Appendix 2. Distribution of strategies -- Appendix 3. Beyond the three ghettos: econometric analysis of uprisings

Why are some nascent groups able to organize sustained violent resistance to state repression, whereas others quickly fail? This article links the sustainability of armed resistance to a largely understudied variable—theskillsto mount such a resistance. It also argues that the nature of repression experienced by a community creates and shapes these crucial skills. More specifically, the article focuses on a distinction between selective and indiscriminate state repression. Selective repression is more likely to create skilled resisters; indiscriminate repression substantially less so. Thus, large-scale repression that begins at timethas a higher chance of being met with sustained organized resistance att +1if among the targeted population there are people who were subject to selective repression att‒1. The article tests this argument by comparing the trajectories of anti-Nazi Jewish resistance groups in three ghettos during the Holocaust: Minsk, Kraków, and Białystok.