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Book The Youngest Partisan

Download or read book The Youngest Partisan written by A. Romi Cohn and published by Mesorah Publications, Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Holocaust story like very few others. It's about a youngster who turned on his persecutors and showed them that Jewish blood is not cheap. And he lived to tell his story! A. Romi Cohn -- today a well-known mohel, businessman and philanthropist -- was a precocious, active 10-year-old yeshivah student when the Nazis invaded Poland. Soon afterward, they and their puppet regime took over his native Czechoslovakia. The Nazis did not have to round up Czech Jews, the Czechs did it for them, and even paid the conqueror to take the Jews off their hands.

Book Defiance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nechama Tec
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008-12-26
  • ISBN : 9780199744022
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Defiance written by Nechama Tec and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The War of a Jewish Partisan

Download or read book The War of a Jewish Partisan written by Yechiel Granatstein and published by Mesorah Publications, Limited. This book was released on 1986 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Partisan

Download or read book The Partisan written by John A. Jenkins and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows Rehnquist's career as a young lawyer in Arizona through his journey to Washington though the Warren and Burger courts to his twenty-year tenure as a Supreme Court Chief Justice who favored government power over individual rights.

Book A Polish Boy

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  • Author : Bf Jochnowitz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023-01-27
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Polish Boy written by Bf Jochnowitz and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrified six-year-old Polish Boy runs through the woods. His mother shouts, "Go faster my love." He does, and the Nazis kill her. Chielik is plagued by unanswered questions. He is a Jew.In 1945, after the war and surviving in the Black Forest, Chielik struggles to come to terms with his life. The Polish Boy is now a man who fought with the partisans and won his own freedom.

Book A Polish Boy

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  • Author : B. F. Jochnowitz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-07-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Polish Boy written by B. F. Jochnowitz and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrified six-year-old Polish Boy runs through the woods. His mother shouts, "Go faster my love." He does, and the Nazis kill her. Chielik is plagued by unanswered questions. He is a Jew. In 1945, after the war and surviving in the Black Forest, Chielik struggles to come to terms with his life. The Polish Boy is now a man who fought with the partisans and won his own freedom.

Book A Voice from the Forest

Download or read book A Voice from the Forest written by Nahum Kohn and published by New York : Holocaust Library. This book was released on 1980 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Taking Risks

Download or read book Taking Risks written by Joseph Pell and published by RDR Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every Holocaust story is unique, but Joe Pell's is so extraordinary it transcends the genre. Pell's book is part World War II saga, part adventure tale, part memoir. It encompasses the tragedy of the war and the triumph of the survivors. It goes from Pell's days sleeping on leaves and digging for potatoes in the Ukranian woods to his life among the Bay Area's most successful businessmen. It's also a great read. -Caroline Jones, San Francisco Chronicle. Illustrations. Winner Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Bronze Award

Book Here  There Are No Sarahs

Download or read book Here There Are No Sarahs written by Sonia Shainwald Orbuch and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stripped of her name, 18-year-old "Sonia" Shainwald went to war without basic training, without equipment, without food or any of the essentials necessary to fight the Germans. Urging her family and neighbors to leave a wretched hiding place during the liquidation of their ghetto, she and her parents and uncle spent a brutal winter in the forests and then joined a heroic Soviet partisan brigade. After the liberation, her family spent three years in a Displaced Persons camp near Frankfurt, and eventually reached America. But Sonia's life in her adopted land has been both tragic and triumphant. “Here, There Are No Sarahs” is co-authored by Holocaust scholar Fred Rosenbaum whose “Taking Risks” (with former partisan Joseph Pell) was praised by the San Francisco Chronical as “so extraordinary that it transcends the genre.” As they were completing their manuscript, Orbuch and Rosenbaum discovered that a trove of touching family correspondence written in the 1930s and 40s lay in a closet in Argentina. The letters, some in Sonia's own hand, were copied, sent to the Bay Area, and translated. Several are published in the book's appendix, along with love poetry penned in the forest in 1943.

Book If  by Miracle

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  • Author : Michael Kutz
  • Publisher : Azrieli Fndtn
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781897470350
  • Pages : 149 pages

Download or read book If by Miracle written by Michael Kutz and published by Azrieli Fndtn. This book was released on 2013 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling story of a courageous and resilient young boy who narrowly escapes death at the hands of the Nazi killing squads.

Book The Partisan

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  • Author : Patrick Worrall
  • Publisher : Union Square & Co.
  • Release : 2023-04-25
  • ISBN : 1454950773
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book The Partisan written by Patrick Worrall and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic in scope, The Partisan is a thrill ride that takes readers from the hallowed halls of Cambridge to the grimy depths of the Moscow underworld, from 1960s London to the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Summer 1961: The brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous. Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron Curtain, Yulia and Michael, meet at a chess tournament in London. They don't know it, but they’re about to compete in the deadliest game ever played. Shadowing them is Greta, a ruthless Lithuanian resistance fighter who is hunting down some of the most dangerous men in the world. Men who are also on the radar of Vassily, perhaps the USSR's greatest spymaster. A man of cunning and influence, Vassily is Yulia's minder during her visit to the West, but even he could not foresee the consequences of her meeting Michael. When the world is accelerating towards an inevitable and catastrophic conflict, what can just four people do to prevent it?

Book Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

Download or read book Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism written by Kristen R. Ghodsee and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done right, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work-life balance and, yes, even better sex. In a witty, irreverent op-ed piece that went viral, Kristen Ghodsee argued that women had better sex under socialism. The response was tremendous — clearly she articulated something many women had sensed for years: the problem is with capitalism, not with us. Ghodsee, an acclaimed ethnographer and professor of Russian and East European Studies, spent years researching what happened to women in countries that transitioned from state socialism to capitalism. She argues here that unregulated capitalism disproportionately harms women, and that we should learn from the past. By rejecting the bad and salvaging the good, we can adapt some socialist ideas to the 21st century and improve our lives. She tackles all aspects of a woman's life - work, parenting, sex and relationships, citizenship, and leadership. In a chapter called "Women: Like Men, But Cheaper," she talks about women in the workplace, discussing everything from the wage gap to harassment and discrimination. In "What To Expect When You're Expecting Exploitation," she addresses motherhood and how "having it all" is impossible under capitalism. Women are standing up for themselves like never before, from the increase in the number of women running for office to the women's march to the long-overdue public outcry against sexual harassment. Interest in socialism is also on the rise -- whether it's the popularity of Bernie Sanders or the skyrocketing membership numbers of the Democratic Socialists of America. It's become increasingly clear to women that capitalism isn't working for us, and Ghodsee is the informed, lively guide who can show us the way forward.

Book Partisans

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  • Author : Nicole Hemmer
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2022-08-30
  • ISBN : 1541646878
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Partisans written by Nicole Hemmer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politics of the 1990s Ronald Reagan has long been lionized for building a conservative coalition sustained by an optimistic vision of American exceptionalism, small government, and free markets. But as historian Nicole Hemmer reveals, the Reagan coalition was short-lived; it fell apart as soon as its charismatic leader left office. In the 1990s — a decade that has yet to be recognized as the breeding ground for today’s polarizing politics — changing demographics and the emergence of a new political-entertainment media fueled the rise of combative far-right politicians and pundits. These partisans, from Pat Buchanan and Newt Gingrich to Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham, forged a new American right that emphasized anti-globalism, appeals to white resentment, and skepticism about democracy itself. Partisans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the crisis of American politics today.

Book Partisan Wedding

Download or read book Partisan Wedding written by Renata Vigano and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II stories on Italian women in the Resistance as heroines and traitors, and the way they exploited their femininity. In Red Flag, a woman hides guns by covering them with a soiled sanitary napkin.

Book We Fought Back

Download or read book We Fought Back written by Allan Zullo and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories of teenage Jews who fought back against the Nazis primarily in eastern Europe by using tactics such as guerilla warfare and sabotage.

Book A Partisan s Memoir

Download or read book A Partisan s Memoir written by Faye Schulman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faye Schulman was a teenager when the Nazis invaded her town on the Russian-Polish border. She survived, and the photographs she took testify to her experiences and the persecution she witnessed.

Book Go  My Son

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  • Author : Chaim Shapiro
  • Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780873065009
  • Pages : 562 pages

Download or read book Go My Son written by Chaim Shapiro and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: