Fugitives of the forest : the heroic story of Jewish resistance and survival during the Second World War / Allan Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Allan, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Europe, Eastern.

World War, 1939-1945.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

xlix, 414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Lyon's Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, 2009.

Summary:

As the Second World War and the Nazi assault on Europe ended, some 25,000 Jews, entire families in some instances, walked out of the forests of Eastern Europe. For three years, these men, women and children had miraculously survived, eluding Nazi hunts and Soviet, Polish, and Ukrainian partisans who often killed first and asked questions later. They had escaped from the Nazi ghettos and slave labor camps and formed secret partisan camps in the surrounding forests. The forest not only protected them, it also became their base for sabotage and resistance efforts against the Germans and their allies. Based on extensive research and numerous interviews with survivors, this book tells their harrowing and heroic story. Some may ask the troubling question: why did not more Jews resist? But historian Levine poses a more apt question: how, under the circumstances, was any resistance possible at all?--From publisher description.

Contents:

Nazis and Soviets

June 1941

Partisan beginnings and collective interests

The ghetto or the forest

Escape

Into the forest

Russians and Jews

Partisans

Survival

Shtetlach in the Naliboki

Sabotage

A perilous liberation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781599214962

1599214962

OCLC:

227032044

Publisher Number:

99938749055