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The
Avengers (Compasss Press Large Print Book Series)
by Rich Cohen
Rich Cohen, author of Tough Jews, has written what he calls "a Holocaust
story without a concentration camp" about Jewish resistance fighters during
World War II. The Avengers: A Jewish War Story describes how three
young Jews--Cohen's cousin Ruzka Korczak, her friend Abba Kovner, and Kovner's
future wife Vitka Klemperer--created an armed, underground movement behind
the German lines in Poland with the goal of sabotaging the Nazis and helping
the Russians advance. Cohen reports that Kovner described the group's dilemma
this way: "If we act cowardly, we die; if we act courageously, we die.
So we might as well act courageously." The group's fighting outlasted the
war to exact revenge on the Nazis held in Nuremberg and finally to fight
for Israel in the 1948 War for Independence. Researching The Avengers,
Cohen spent time with the surviving resistance fighters in Israel and in
Eastern Europe. The result is a deeply personal and impassioned defense
of a movement that some readers will view with pride and others will condemn
as vigilantism. This book, like Tough Jews, is a lively, intelligent, and
heartfelt work of Jewish history. --Michael Joseph Gross - Amazon.com
Hardcover from Wheeler Pub
Book Published: October, 2001
The
Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Saved
1,200 Jews and Built a Village in the Forest
by Peter Duffy
Book Description: It is one of the most remarkable dramas of
World War II -- untold until now.
In 1941, three young men -- brothers, sons of a miller -- witnessed
their parents and two other siblings being led away to their eventual murders.
It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout
the war. What makes this particular story of interest is how the survivors
responded. Instead of running or capitulating or giving in to despair,
these brothers -- Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski -- did something else entirely.
They fought back, waging a guerrilla war of wits and cunning against both
the Nazis and the pro-Nazi sympathizers. Along the way they saved well
over a thousand Jewish lives.
Using their intimate knowledge of the dense forests surrounding the
Belorussian towns of Novogrudek and Lida, the Bielskis evaded the Nazis
and established a hidden base camp, then set about convincing other Jews
to join their ranks. When the Nazis began systematically eliminating the
local Jewish populations -- more than ten thousand were killed in the first
year of the Nazi occupation alone -- the Bielskis intensified their efforts,
often sending fighting men into the ghettos to escort Jews to safety. As
more and more Jews arrived each day, a robust community began to emerge,
a "Jerusalem in the woods." They slept in camouflaged dugouts built into
the ground. Lovers met, were married, and conceived children. The community
boasted a synagogue, a bathhouse, a theater, and cobblers so skilled that
Russian officers would wait in line to have their boots reshod.
But as its notoriety grew, so too did the Nazi efforts to capture the
rugged brothers; and on several occasions they came so near to succeeding
that the Bielskis had to abandon the camp and lead their massive entourage
to newer, safer locations. And while some argued in favor of a smaller,
more mobile unit, focused strictly on waging battle against the Germans,
Tuvia Bielski was firm in his commitment to all Jews. "I'd rather save
one old Jewish woman," he said, "than kill ten Nazis."
In July 1944, after two and a half years in the woods, the Bielskis
learned that the Germans, overrun by the Red Army, were retreating back
toward Berlin. More than one thousand Bielski Jews emerged -- alive --
on that final, triumphant exit from the woods.
The Bielski Brothers is a dramatic and heartfelt retelling of a story
of the truest heroism, a historic testament to courage in the face of unspeakable
adversity.
Hardcover from HarperCollins
Book Published: 01 July, 2003 |
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Darkness
over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews
by Ellen Levine
Paperback from Holiday House
Book Published: January, 2002
The
Birth of the Irgun Zvai Leumi: The Jewish Resistance Movement
by Danny Levine, Daniel Levine
Paperback from Gefen Books
Book Published: November, 1997
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The
Faces of Resistance
by Stuart A. Kallen
School & Library Binding from Abdo & Daughters
Book Published: December, 1994
Heroes
of the Holocaust (History Makers)
by Susan Glick
Hardcover from Lucent Books
Book Published: January, 2003
We
Struggled for Life: The Hungarian Zionist Youth Resistance During the Nazi
Era
by Rafi Benshalom, Efraim Agmon
Hardcover from Gefen Books
Book Published: August, 2001
Rescue
as Resistance
by Lucien Lazare, Jeffrey M. Green
Hardcover from Columbia University Press
Book Published: 15 April, 1996 |
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The
Resistance (Holocaust Library (San Diego, Calif.).)
by Deborah Bachrach
Hardcover from Lucent Books
Book Published: January, 1998
Resistance
to the Nazis
by Jane Shuter
Library Binding from Heinemann Library
Book Published: January, 2003
Rescue
and Resistance: Portraits of the Holocaust
by Macmillan Reference Usa
Library Binding from MacMillan Library Reference
Book Published: March, 1999
Resistance
and Survival: The Jewish Community in Kaunas, Lituania, 1941-1944
by Sara Ginaite-Rubinson
Hardcover from Mosaic Press
Book Published: January, 2004
To
Live With Hope, to Die With Dignity: Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos
and Camps
by Joseph Rudavsky
Hardcover from Jason Aronson
Book Published: September, 1997
Poland's
Ghettos at War
by Alfred Katz
Hardcover from Irvington Pub
Book Published: June, 1978
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Resistance:
Teen Partisans and Resisters Who Fought Nazi Tyranny
by Charles Anflick
Library Binding from Rosen Publishing Group
Book Published: January, 1999
Survival
and Resistance
by Pat Levy, Patricia M. Levy
Library Binding from Raintree/Steck Vaughn
Book Published: January, 2002
Endurance: Chronicles of Jewish Resistance
by Amnon Ajzensztadt
Hardcover from Mosaic Press
Book Published: December, 1989
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Fugitives of the Forest
by Allan Gerald Levine
Hardcover from Stoddart Pub
Book Published: September, 1999
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Jewish Resistance in France
by Anny Latour
Paperback from U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Shop Memorial
Council
Book Published: September, 1981
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To Live With Hope, to Die With Dignity
by Joseph, Rudavsky
Paperback from Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN)
Book Published: April, 1987
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Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
by Herbert Druks
Paperback from Irvington Pub
Book Published: March, 1983
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Fighting Back: Lithuanian Jewry's Armed Resistance to the Nazis,
1941-1945
by Dov Levin
Hardcover from Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc.
Book Published: June, 1985
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The Jewish Resistance: The History of the Jewish Partisans in Lithuania
and White Russia During the Nazi Occupation, 1940-1945
by Lester Samuel Eckman
Hardcover from Shengold Pub
Book Published: March, 1978
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