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The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1 200 Jews by 1944-the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II. Tec reveals that this extraordinary community included both men and women some with weapons but mostly unarmed ranging from infants to the elderly. She reconstructs for the first time the amazing details of how these partisans and their families-hungry exposed to the harsh winter weather-managed not only to survive but to offer protection to all Jewish fugitives who could find their way to them. Arguing that this success would have been unthinkable without the vision of one man Tec offers penetrating insight into the group's commander Tuvia Bielski. Tec brings to light the untold story of Bielski's struggle as a partisan who lost his parents wife and two brothers 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. 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 RepublicRead More

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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

  • 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.

  • 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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