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Defiance Book
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ASDA
Herself a Holocaust survivor Nechama Tec here draws on wide-ranging research and never before published interviews with surviving partisans-including Tuvia Bielski himself-to reconstruct here the poignant and unforgettable story of those who chose to fight. The saga of the Bielski partisans is one of the most elevating and inspiring stories in the chronicle of death and despair that is the Holocaust...Defiance is an accomplished and startling work of Holocaust documentation. --Los Angeles Times Powerful and meticulous. This story is like almost no other. --Leon Wieseltier The New Republic
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BookDepository
Defiance : Paperback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780195385236 : : 11 Dec 2008 : In 1941, a thousand-strong group of Jewishresistance fightersmen, women, andchildrenestablished a community in theforests of western Belorussia. They offeredprotection to all Jewish fugitives who couldfind their way to them. It was the largestarmed rescue operation of Jews by Jews inthe war perhaps in any war ever.Their leader, the charismatic Tuvia Bielski,told his story to author Nechama Tec two weeks before he died in 1987.
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Blackwell
A holocaust survivor tells of the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during World War II. Tec describes an extraordinary hidden forest community of 1,200 Jews who were led by peasant-turned-partisan Tuvia Bielski. The prevailing image of...
- 0195385233
- 9780195385236
- Nechama Tec
- 11 December 2008
- OUP Oxford
- Paperback (Book)
- 374
- illustrated edition
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