Fighting Back: A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in World War II

by Harold Werner, Mark Werner (Editor), Martin Gilbert (Foreword by)

Overview

An authoritative account of the Jewish Resistance during World War II.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231078832
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	10/27/1994
Edition description:	REISSUE
Pages:	251
Product dimensions:	6.01(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.74(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

1. Life in Warsaw Before the Storm
2. The Jewish Dilemma
3. Outbreak of War
4. The Trek Toward Russia
5. Life in Hola
6. Work as a Farm Hand
7. Childhood Remembrances
8. Remembrances of Life in the Big City
9. The Germans Invade Russia
10. Ominous News from Warsaw
11. The Winter of 1941–42
12. Betrayal at the Hands of the Hola Farmers
13. The Zamolodycze Raid
14. I Lose Manya in the Skorodnica Forest
15. The Hunt
16. Taking the Offensive
17. A Short Stay in the Makoszka Forest
18. Our First Attack Against the Germans
19. March 1943
20. Rescuing Jews from the Wlodawa Ghetto
21. We Join Chiel Grynszpan's Partisans
22. Rescuing Jews from the Adampol Labor Camp
23. Spies
24. A Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
25. An Ambush and a Happy Reunion
26. Successful Raids After Joining the Army Ludowa
27. A Sad Reunion
28. A Second Encounter with Zaremba
29. Donachy Gets Her Revenge
30. The Sobibor Death Camp
31. On the Offensive in the Fall of 1943
32. Destruction of Our Base in the Ochoza Forest
33. Destruction of the Ostrow Lubelski Garrison
34. Escape from Encirclement
35. Murder at the Hands of the Army Krajowa
36. Our First Parachute Drop
37. The Winter of 1943-44
38. Spring 1944
39. A Pitched Battle
40. Liberation
41. Disillusionment and Departure

Editorial Reviews

A tale of astonishing success—the small groups slowly grew, joined with other groups, and became a partisan force able to blow up bridges, attack German convoys, rescue other Jews, and exact revenge for earlier betrayals . . . This account has the authority of unvarnished human testimony; Mr. Werner's matter-of-fact tone makes the story he tells all the more horrifying.

New Yorker