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Defiance

Nechama Tec, herself a Holocaust survivor, offers a riveting history of a European Jewish group in western Belorussia led by Tuvia Bielski that would number more than 1,200 by 1944 and become the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.

Main Author: Tec, Nechama.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Bielski, Tuvia.
Jews > Persecutions > Belarus.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Belarus.
World war, 1939-1945 > Jewish resistance > Belarus.
World war, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Belarus.
Belarus > Ethnic relations.
Summary: Nechama Tec, herself a Holocaust survivor, offers a riveting history of a European Jewish group in western Belorussia led by Tuvia Bielski that would number more than 1,200 by 1944 and become the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.
Physical Description: xxii, 374 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-352) and index.
ISBN: 9780195376852
0195376854
Author Notes: Nechama Tec is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, Stamford. She is the author of six books, including In 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.

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