people against the resistance members by making them seem like selfish enemies who were provoking the Nazis. Jacob Gens emphasized the people's responsibility for one another. He said that resistance was sacrificing the good of the community. In the end, the people confronted the resistance and demanded their own right to live. The resistance would not fire on the other Jews and they were eventually disarmed and arrested on September 1, 1943. When the Nazis came to liquidate the ghetto in 1943, the members of the FPO again congregated. Gens took control of the liquidation so as to rid the ghetto of the Germans, but helped fill the quota of Jews with those who would fight but were not necessarily part of the resistance. The FPO fled to the forest, where most were able to reach Soviet partisan units. FPO members participated in the liberation of Vilna by the Soviet army in July 1944. See also Anti-fascism Ghetto uprising History of the Jews during World War II Jewish partisans Jewish resistance under Nazi rule Resistance during World War II Vilna Ghetto Shtil, di nakht iz oysgeshternt References Further reading Yitzhak Arad, Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust vol. 2, pp. 470–472. Illustration. External links The Underground Movements in Vilna from The Jerusalem of Lithuania: The Story of the Jewish Community of Vilna an online exhibition by Yad Vashem Chronicles of the Vilna Ghetto: wartime photographs & documents – vilnaghetto.com About the Holocaust Jewish Partisan Group Near Vilna Kurzbiographien Partisan Rachel Rudnitzky After Liberation Partisans in Vilna Partisans of Vilna Rozka Korczak & Abba Kovner with members of the United Partisan Organization (FPO) Vilna Partisans Documentary film project on the former FPO partisan Fania Brancovskaya Anti-Zionism in Lithuania Poland in World War II Jewish Lithuanian history Jewish Polish history Jewish resistance during the Holocaust History of Vilnius Lithuanian Resistance in World War II The Holocaust in Lithuania Military units and formations of Poland in World War II Generalbezirk Litauen Vilna Ghetto Yiddish culture in Lithuania Zionism in Lithuania