Lamb to the Slaughter may refer to:
- "Like sheep to the slaughter", a biblical phrase promoting the myth that Jews went passively to their deaths during the Holocaust
- "Lamb to the Slaughter", a 1953 short story by Roald Dahl
- "Lambs to the Slaughter", a song by Raven from their 1981 album Rock Until You Drop
- A Lamb to the Slaughter: An Artist Among the Battlefields, a 1984 book by Jan Montyn and Dirk Ayelt Kooiman, ISBN 0-285-62621-3
- "Lamb to the Slaughter", a song by a-ha from their 1993 album Memorial Beach
- Lambs to the Slaughter , a 1979 memoir by Australian cricketer Graham Yallop
"Like sheep to the slaughter" is a phrase which refers to the idea that Jews went passively to their deaths during the Holocaust. It derives from a similar phrase in the Hebrew Bible which positively depicts martyrdom in both the Jewish and Christian religious traditions. Opposition to the phrase became associated with Jewish nationalism due to its use in Josippon and by Jewish self-defense groups after the 1903 Kishinev pogrom. During the Holocaust, Abba Kovner and other Jewish resistance leaders used the phrase to exhort Jews to fight back. In postwar Israel, most Holocaust survivors were demonized as having gone "like sheep to the slaughter" while armed resistance was glorified. The phrase was taken to mean that Jews had not tried to save their own lives, and consequently were partly responsible for their own suffering and death. This myth, which has become less prominent over time, is frequently criticized by historians, theologians, and survivors as a form of victim blaming.
"Lamb to the Slaughter" (1953) is a short story by Roald Dahl. It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, but was ultimately published in Harper's Magazine in September 1953. It was adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents that starred Barbara Bel Geddes and Harold J. Stone. Originally broadcast on April 13, 1958, this was one of only 17 AHP episodes directed by Hitchcock himself. The episode was ranked #59 of the Top 100 Episodes by TV Guide in 2009. The story was subsequently adapted for Dahl's British TV series Tales of the Unexpected. Dahl included it in his short story compilation Someone Like You. The narrative element of the housewife killing her husband and letting the policemen partake in eating the evidence was also used by Pedro Almodóvar in his 1984 movie What Have I Done to Deserve This?, with a leg of mutton.
Jan Montyn was a Dutch artist, specialized in etching. He was best known for his paintings of wars to which he had been an eyewitness.
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