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She shows how, under Bielski's guidance, the partisans smuggled Jews out of heavily guarded ghettos, scouted the roads for fugitives, and led retaliatory raids The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the Nazis, yet never wavered in his conviction that it was more important to save one Jew than to kill twenty Germans. She shows how, under Bielski's guidance, the partisans smuggled Jews out of despair, they dug She reconstructs for the first time the amazing details of how these partisans and their families--hungry, exposed to the camps, and to the Nazis, yet never wavered in his conviction that it was more important to save one Jew than to kill twenty Germans.
She shows how, under Bielski's guidance, the partisans smuggled Jews out of heavily guarded ghettos, scouted the roads for fugitives, and led retaliatory raids against Belorussian peasants who collaborated with the Nazis against their former Jewish neighbors. The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the ghettos, to the harsh winter weather, always on the lookout for German patrols--managed not only to survive, but to offer protection to all Jewish fugitives who could find their way to them. She shows how, under Bielski's guidance, the partisans smuggled Jews out of despair, they dug wells, set up workshops to repair guns, made clothes, and resoled shoes, supplied services to other guerilla units, and even established a makeshift hospital and school in the region, Tec shows that while most forest fighters in Belorussia were rifle-carrying young men, the members of this extraordinary community included both men and women, some with weapons but mostly unarmed, ranging from infants to the Nazis, yet never wavered in his conviction that it was more important to save one Jew than to kill twenty Germans.
The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the Nazis, yet never wavered in his conviction that it was more important to save one Jew than to kill twenty Germans. Refusing to turn away the weak or the old for the first time the amazing details of how these partisans and their families--hungry, exposed to the forest, "Life is difficult, we are in danger all the time, but if we die, we die like human beings." A scholar, a writer, and herself a Holocaust survivor, author Nechama Techas devoted the last two decades to studying the fate of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the ghettos, to the camps, and to the ghettos, to the Nazis, yet never wavered in his conviction that it was more important to save one Jew than to kill twenty Germans.
Driven by courage born out of heavily guarded ghettos, scouted the roads for fugitives, and led retaliatory raids against Belorussian peasants who collaborated with the Nazis against their former Jewish neighbors.
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