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Fighting Back : A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in World War II / Harold Werner; Mark Werner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Werner, Harold, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1992]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This is a personal story of survival by Hershel Zimmerman, later known as Harold Werner, who survived the Holocaust in the woods of Eastern Poland.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Explanation of Names, Places, and Events
- Foreword: Harold Werner - Story of Jewish Resistance
- Preface
- Editor's Acknowledgments
- Maps
- 1. Life in Warsaw Before the Storm
- 2. The Jewish Dilemma
- 3. Outbreak of War
- 4. The Trek Toward Russia
- 5. Life in Hola
- 6. Work as a Farm Hand
- 7. Childhood Remembrances
- 8. Remembrances of Life in the Big City
- 9. The Germans Invade Russia
- 10. Ominous News from Warsaw
- 11. The Winter of 1941-42
- 12. Betrayal at the Hands of the Hola Farmers
- 13. The Zamolodycze Raid
- 14. I Lose Manya in the Skorodnica Forest
- 15. The Hunt
- 16. Taking the Offensive
- 17. A Short Stay in the Makoszka Forest
- 18. Our First Attack Against the Germans
- 19. March 1943
- 20. Rescuing Jews from the Wlodawa Ghetto
- 21. We Join Chiel Grynszpan's Partisans
- 22. Rescuing Jews from the Adampol Labor Camp
- 23. Spies
- 24. A Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- 25. An Ambush and a Happy Reunion
- 26. Successful Raids After Joining the Army Ludowa
- 27. A Sad Reunion
- 28. A Second Encounter with Zaremba
- 29. Donachy Gets Her Revenge
- 30. The Sobibor Death Camp
- 31. On the Offensive in the Fall of 1943
- 32. Destruction of Our Base in the Ochoza Forest
- 33. Destruction of the Ostrow Lubelski Garrison
- 34. Escape from Encirclement
- 35. Murder at the Hands of the Army Krajowa
- 36. Our First Parachute Drop
- 37. The Winter of 1943-44
- 38. Spring 1944
- 39. A Pitched Battle
- 40. Liberation
- 41. Disillusionment and Departure
- Epilogue
- Glossary of Names
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-88222-X
- OCLC:
- 1100430305
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