5 options
A Partisan from Vilna / Rachel Margolis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Margolis, Raḥel, Author.
- Series:
- Jews of Poland
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fareynikte partizaner organizatsye (Vilnius, Lithuania)--Biography.
- Margolis, Rahel.
- Women guerrillas--Belarus--Biography.
- Women guerrillas--Lithuania--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Lithuanian.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Lithuania.
- Women guerrillas--Underground movements--Lithuania--Biography.
- Women guerrillas.
- Women guerrillas--Underground movements--Belarus--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Lithuania--Personal narratives, Lithuanian.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Belarus--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945--Vilnius--Lithuania--Biography.
- Jewish women.
- Local Subjects:
- Fareynikte partizaner organizatsye (Vilnius, Lithuania)--Biography.
- Margolis, Rahel.
- Women guerrillas--Belarus--Biography.
- Women guerrillas--Lithuania--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Lithuanian.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Lithuania.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (520 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Partisan of Vilna is the memoir of Rachel Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the FPO (United Partisan Organization) resistance movement and joined the Soviet partisans in the forests of Lithuania to sabotage the Nazis. Beginning with an account of Rachel's life as a precocious, privileged girl in pre-war Vilna, it goes on to detail life in the Vilna Ghetto, including the development of the FPO and its struggles against the Nazis. Finally, the book chronicles the escape of a group of FPO members into the forest of Belarus, where Rachel became a partisan fighter. Rather than "keep house" back at their bunker like other female partisans, Rachel demanded assignments to active duty alongside the men. Going on military assignments, she burned down a bridge, blew up railroad tracks, and helped bring in food supplies for her fellow partisans. The book opens with an introductory essay by renowned historian Antony Polonsky.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / Margolis, Marjorie
- INTRODUCTION / Polonsky, Antony
- LALECZKA (YEARS 1927-1931)
- THE GATEWAY TO HELL
- GHETTO
- PARTISANS
- AFTERWORD / Margolis, Marjorie
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX OF NAMES
- GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-61811-121-3
- OCLC:
- 769190209
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.