Defiance: Bielski Partisans - Hardcover

Tec, Nechama

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195075951 ISBN 13: 9780195075953

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1993

Synopsis

Fighting in the dense forests of eastern Poland and Belorussia, Jewish partisans represented a heroic form of resistance in the midst of the Holocaust. Refusing to submit to the Nazi terror, one such group - the Bielski Otriad - performed the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II. Written by a Holocaust survivor, this study offers a riveting history of this remarkable group and its struggle to survive - and even to create a miniature forest village - in the midst of adversity. Detailing the life of Tuvia Bielski, their independent and charismatic leader, the account shows how the quest for self-preservation was transformed into a story of compassion, altruism and rescue.

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About the Author

About the Author:
Nechama Tec is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, Stamford. She is the author of six books, includingIn the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen, the winner of the 1990 Christopher Award,When Light Pierced the Darkness, and Dry Tears, a memoir of her experiences during the years of the Nazi occupation of Poland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195075951
• ISBN 13: 9780195075953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 291