A Partisan From Vilna
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A Partisan From Vilna
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Author : Raḥel Margolis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
A Partisan From Vilna written by Raḥel Margolis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the resistance movement, the FPO (United Partisan Organization), and joined the Soviet partisans in the forests of Lithuania to sabotage the Nazis. Her memoir details her life and struggles.
Until Our Last Breath
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Author : Michael Bart
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2008-05-13
Until Our Last Breath written by Michael Bart and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-13 with History categories.
"This is a powerful tale of the triumph of love under extremely difficult conditions. " - Publishers Weekly At Leizer Bart's funeral, one of the mourners told his son Michael that the gravestone should include a reference to the Freedom Fighters of Nekamah, to honor his late father's involvement in the Jewish resistance movement in Vilna (now Vilnius), Lithuania, at the end of World War II. Michael had never heard his parents referenced as Freedom Fighters. Following his father's death, and with his mother in failing health, Michael embarked on a ten-year research project to find out more details about his parents' time in the Vilna ghetto, where they met, fell in love, and married, and about their activities as members of the Jewish resistance. Until Our Last Breath is the culmination of his research, and his parents' story of love and survival is seamlessly tied into the collective story of the Vilna ghetto, the partisans of Vilna, and the wider themes of world history. Zenia, Bart's mother, was born and raised in Vilna. Leizer fled there to escape the Nazi invasion of his hometown of Hrubieshov in Poland. They were married by one of the last remaining rabbis ninety days before the liquidation of the ghetto. Leizer was friends with Zionist leader Abba Kovner and became a member of the Vilna ghetto underground. Shortly before the total liquidation of the ghetto, Zenia and Leizer, along with about 120 members of the underground, were able to escape to the Rudnicki forest, about 25 miles away. They became part of the Jewish partisan fighting group led by Abba Kovner—known as the Avengers—which carried out sabotage missions against the Nazi army and eventually participated in the liberation of Vilna. Until Our Last Breath is intensely personal and painstakingly researched, a lasting memorial to the Jews of Vilna, including the resistance fighters and the author's family.
The Partisan
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Author : Yitzhak Arad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Partisan written by Yitzhak Arad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
The Book Smugglers
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Author : David E. Fishman
language : en
Publisher: University Press of New England
Release Date : 2017-10-03
The Book Smugglers written by David E. Fishman and has been published by University Press of New England this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with History categories.
The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts-first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets-by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion-including the readiness to risk one's life-to literature and art. And it is entirely true. Based on Jewish, German, and Soviet documents, including diaries, letters, memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's participants, The Book Smugglers chronicles the daring activities of a group of poets turned partisans and scholars turned smugglers in Vilna, "The Jerusalem of Lithuania." The rescuers were pitted against Johannes Pohl, a Nazi "expert" on the Jews, who had been dispatched to Vilna by the Nazi looting agency, Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, to organize the seizure of the city's great collections of Jewish books. Pohl and his Einsatzstab staff planned to ship the most valuable materials to Germany and incinerate the rest. The Germans used forty ghetto inmates as slave-laborers to sort, select, pack, and transport the materials, either to Germany or to nearby paper mills. This group, nicknamed "the Paper Brigade," and informally led by poet Shmerke Kaczerginski, a garrulous, street-smart adventurer and master of deception, smuggled thousands of books and manuscripts past German guards. If caught, the men would have faced death by firing squad at Ponar, the mass-murder site outside of Vilna. To store the rescued manuscripts, poet Abraham Sutzkever helped build an underground book-bunker sixty feet beneath the Vilna ghetto. Kaczerginski smuggled weapons as well, using the group's worksite, the former building of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, to purchase arms for the ghetto's secret partisan organization. All the while, both men wrote poetry that was recited and sung by the fast-dwindling population of ghetto inhabitants. With the Soviet "liberation" of Vilna (now known as Vilnius), the Paper Brigade thought themselves and their precious cultural treasures saved-only to learn that their new masters were no more welcoming toward Jewish culture than the old, and the books must now be smuggled out of the USSR. Thoroughly researched by the foremost scholar of the Vilna Ghetto-a writer of exceptional daring, style, and reach-The Book Smugglers is an epic story of human heroism, a little-known tale from the blackest days of the war.
The Jewish Resistance
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Author : Lester Samuel Eckman
language : en
Publisher: Shengold Books
Release Date : 1977
The Jewish Resistance written by Lester Samuel Eckman and has been published by Shengold Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with History categories.
Dotyczy m. in. Polski.
From The Vilna Ghetto To Nuremberg
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Author : Abraham Sutzkever
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2021-10-06
From The Vilna Ghetto To Nuremberg written by Abraham Sutzkever and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-06 with History categories.
In 1944, the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters. There he was encouraged by Ilya Ehrenburg, the most famous Soviet Jewish writer of his day, to write a memoir of his two years in the Vilna Ghetto. Now, seventy-five years after it appeared in Yiddish in 1946, Justin Cammy provides a full English translation of one of the earliest published memoirs of the destruction of the city known throughout the Jewish world as the Jerusalem of Lithuania. Based on his own experiences, his conversations with survivors, and his consultation with materials hidden in the ghetto and recovered after the liberation of his hometown, Sutzkever’s memoir rests at the intersection of postwar Holocaust literature and history. He grappled with the responsibility to produce a document that would indict the perpetrators and provide an account of both the horrors and the resilience of Jewish life under Nazi rule. Cammy bases his translation on the two extant versions of the full text of the memoir and includes Sutzkever’s diary notes and full testimony at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. Fascinating reminiscences of leading Soviet Yiddish cultural figures Sutzkever encountered during his time in Moscow – Ehrenburg, Yiddish modernist poet Peretz Markish, and director of the State Yiddish Theatre Shloyme Mikhoels – reveal the constraints of the political environment in which the memoir was composed. Both shocking and moving in its intensity, From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg returns readers to a moment when the scale of the Holocaust was first coming into focus, through the eyes of one survivor who attempted to make sense of daily life, resistance, and death in the ghetto. A Yiddish Book Center Translation
Stronger Than Iron
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Author : M. Balberyszki
language : en
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Release Date : 2010
Stronger Than Iron written by M. Balberyszki and has been published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Destruction of Vilna Jewry 1941-1945: An Eyewitness Account.
Jerusalem Of Lithuania
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Author : N. N. Shneidman
language : en
Publisher: Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press
Release Date : 1998
Jerusalem Of Lithuania written by N. N. Shneidman and has been published by Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
This book relates the story of growth and success, as well as devastation and annihilation, of a thriving Jewish community. It is an incredible account of personal survival placed within the context of the history of the city, and its Jewish population. It combines historical data, academic analysis, and autobiographical material, based on reminiscences and memoirs written during the war.
Destruction And Resistance
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Author : Chaim Lazar
language : en
Publisher: Shengold Books
Release Date : 1985
Destruction And Resistance written by Chaim Lazar and has been published by Shengold Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
A history of the partisan movement in Vilna.
Fugitives Of The Forest
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Author : Allan Levine
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2010-07-13
Fugitives Of The Forest written by Allan Levine and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-13 with History categories.
The heroic story of Jewish resistance and survival during the Second World War.