Larger-scale Jewish revolt against the Nazis

OTL during WWII there were a no. of large-scale revolts by Jewish victims of the Final Solution, whether in the ghettos or concentration camps, against the Nazi oppressors, including not only the 1943 Warsaw ghetto rising, but also a no. of rebellions at Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Treblinka, among others. Now, what PODs would be required for Jewish resistance against the Final Solution to have been more extensive and had a similar debilitating effect on Nazi Germany as the Warsaw rising did against Gen Juergen Stroop and his SS troopers ? would the key be a greater and earlier acceptance (perhaps by 1941/42) by the Western Allies of the magnitude of Hitler's plans for the Final Solution, and a greater degree of co-operation with the Jewish underground orchestrated by the SOE and OSS so that Jewish resistance fighters such as ZOB are better armed and trained so's as to inflict the most havoc on the Nazis ?
 
Perhaps the Jews figure out that "this too shall pass" attitude is wrong much earlier. Most of them believed that this was a temporary thing and resistance would make things worse. It wasn't until comparatively later that they figured out they had nothing to lose by fighting.

Hmm...perhaps the Warsaw Revolt comes a bit earlier, when there are more Jews in the Ghetto (it started when the last of the ghetto Jews resisted the final train to the camps). Thus, with more manpower, it lasts longer and word spreads further, setting off ancilliary revolts. A longer-lasting Ghetto revolt might make it easier for more experienced troublemakers (the Polish Home Army, for example, as well as foreign secret agent types) to come in and help out.
 

Proctol

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Before the war broke out, a group of Zionists led by Vladimir Jabotinsky foresaw the upcoming Holocaust of the Jews. His followers were known as the Revisionists and later founded the Irgun. They proposed practical solutions to fight Hitler but one stands out: a Jewish army on the European continent trained by what would be known as the Allies.

Jabotinsky could have recruited over 250,000 men, & the Polish government was prepared to arm them. Had he done so, the Jews could have protected themselves from the Einsatzgruppen. But the Jewish establishment would not allow him to save Europe's Jews, and Jabotinsky died in 1940.
 
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Proctol said:
Before the war broke out, a group of Zionists led by Vladimir Jabotinsky foresaw the upcoming Holocaust of the Jews. His followers were known as the Revisionists and later founded the Irgun. They proposed practical solutions to fight Hitler but one stands out: a Jewish army on the European continent trained by what would be known as the Allies.

Jabotinsky could have recruited over 250,000 men, & the Polish government was prepared to arm them. Had he done so, the Jews could have protected themselves from the Einsatzgruppen. But the Jewish establishment would not allow him to save Europe's Jews, and Jabotinsky died in 1940.

Yeah, but knowing what a nut Jabotinsky was, I really have to be suspect of his "plan"
 
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