DAVE KOPEL: Unarmed Jews defeat mass murder: Revolts at the extermination camps. “Sometimes the only way to stop mass killers is to fight. That was the strategy attempted by the Jewish prisoners on October 14, 1943, at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland.”
I’m also reminded of the surprisingly-good miniseries Uprising, based on the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt. Here’s a review that Kopel and I wrote back when it came out. And here are some related thoughts of mine from a while back.