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

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Fugitives of the forest

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Allan Levine

the heroic story of Jewish resistance and survival during the Second World War

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

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

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