Defiance: The Bielski Partisans (Library Edition) info
In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1,200 Jews by 1944 and which would undertake the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.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 cou