Table of Contents
Book 1
Acknowledgments xvii
Preface to the Combined Volume xix
Preface To Ist Edition xxiii
Preface to the Fourth Edition xxix
Introduction to the Original 1948 Russian Edition xxxi
Editor's Note xxxiii
Introduction: Jewish Resistance in the Soviet Union 1
The Myth of Jewish Cowardice 1
Ghetto Revolts 5
Uprisings in the Concentration Camps 6
Jewish Participation in Allied Military Forces 7
Jewish Participation in the Partisan Movement 8
Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union 10
Composition of the Soviet Partisan Movement 13
The Peasants 13
The Urban Contingent 14
The Intelligentsia 14
Red Army Fighters and Soviet POWs 15
Communist Party Members 15
Collaborators 16
Women Partisans 17
The Organization of the Partisan Group 19
Anti-Semitism in the Partisan Movement 20
Obstacles to Resistance 22
Greuelpropaganda 23
Collective Retaliation 25
The Hope of Survival 26
Lack of Arms, Lack of Trust 27
Evaluation and Conclusion 29
Part 1
Prologue 33
The Partisan Tales Of Shmuel Persov 35
Introduction 35
A "Your Name - A People" 38
B Herschel, the Oven Builder 41
C Forty-Two 45
D Reisel and Hannah 50
Remember! 57
The Partisan
Mine and Abraham Hirschfeld, the Watchmaker 60
Part 2
Initiatives 65
The Partisan Oath 66
The Partisan Oath 67
Friendship 68
Without Fire 78
Partisan Friendship 81
Shmuel Gottesban 81
Alexander Margalit 82
Dusya Baskina 82
Boris Baskin 83
Joshua Hirsch Baskin 83
Yefim Litvinovsky 83
The Avengers of the Minsk Ghetto 88
Part 3
Partisan Society 97
In The Forests of Bryansk 98
Partisan Doctors 108
Lazar Bleichmann 112
Hungarian Jews 113
The Partisans in Moldavia 114
Meetings and Events 116
In White Russia 116
In the Ukraine 118
In the Kruk Company 119
The Civilian Camps 120
Boris Gindin and Others 121
Women Partisans 124
Partisan Doctors 125
A Civilian Camp in the Forest 127
Introduction 127
Partisan Alexander Abugov 129
Anti-Semitic Tendencies in the Company 138
The Company of "Uncle Petya" 139
Vanka Moryak 141
The Struggle to Capture the Landing Strip 143
The Partisan Filmmaker 146
Women Spies 157
Part 4
Partisan Warfare 161
David Keimach 162
The Partisans of the Kovna Ghetto 172
Men of the Underground 172
In the Forest 174
The Struggle Along the Railway Tracks 177
A Well-Knit Family 178
Daring and Courage 180
Shoulder-to-Shoulder with The Byelorussian Partisans 183
The Freeing of Soviet Lithuania 186
Talking of Friends 189
Rasya 193
Paulina 194
They Were Many 195
In the Tunnels of Odessa 199
Sonya Gutina 205
The Davidovich Family 207
Part 5
Epilogue 211
Soviet Jews During And After
The War of the Fatherland 212
Our Place 214
Book 2
Preface 221
The Ten Commandments of the Holocaust 227
Part 1
Jewish Partisans in the Soviet Union: Latvia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia 1941-1944 229
The Kovpak Men 230
Gregory Lubensky 231
Misha Rubinov 233
My Comrades In Arms 240
Ilya Shklovsky 240
Isaac Sosnovsky 244
Naumov 250
Alexander Karnensky 251
In the Struggle For Soviet Latvia 254
Raphael Blum 254
Leib Kassel 256
Sasha Gurari 259
Zina 260
Grigory Gerchik 261
In White Russia 265
Three Fighters of My Unit 271
Telegraph Operator Joseph Isakovich Malii 272
Dr. Yaakov Bolach 274
Scout Yevgeny Volyansky 275
Victor Spotman 277
Typical Biographies 279
Two Partisans 283
Commissar Naum Feldman 285
The Lermontov Company 292
The Commander of the Boevoi Unit 295
Editor's Notes 304
Part 2
Jewish Partisans in Volyn and Polesia, Ukraine 1941-1944 305
In The Family Camp Under Max's Command 306
The Organization of the Family Camp 308
Children in the Camp (For Avraharn Merin, in Blessed Memory) 310
Leaving the Woods and the Soviet Homeland - and Going Home! 311
A Partisan's Testimony 313
A Good Ending 317
Stages in the Organization of the Partisan Fighting 318
The Jews - Combat and Creative Potential 320
Kruk - Anti-Semitism in the Midst of the Partisans 320
In the Forest With Grandfather 322
A Town in the Woods 328
The First Days in the Woods 332
Exemplary Fighters 335
Successful Operations 336
Dangerous Missions 337
Hand-To-Hand Combat 339
The Legendary Image of Raya Flos 342
Moishe Edelstein 342
The Tragedy of Kahat Finkel 343
The Heroic Death of Two Young Friends 344
Deeds of a Child 349
The Woman Angel Tanya 350
On the Way to the Woods 354
I Decided To Defend My Life 357
The Forester Slovik 359
The Long Road to the Citizen's Camp 365
A New Life 368
A Commander Practices
What He Preaches 369
A Hungry Boy 370
From A Partisan's Notebook 372
The Power of Arms 374
In a Snow Pit 375
Blood Revenge Operation 378
Nadya the Cook 381
The Wedding Operation 383
The Eighteen Fat Cows 384
The Jewish Partisans and the Local Population 385
Germans Following Max's Blood 387
Fifty-Six German Casualties 391
A Chapter of Events on Passover 393
An Evening of Dancing and A Hunt for Murderers 400
With Commander Kostin 407
The Partisans Ward Off Attacks and Capture 413
I Avenge the Enemy and Illegally Immigrate to Israel 419
My Life Under the Ukrainian-German Occupation 425
Life Under Occupation During the First Liquidation in Manevichi 427
The Liquidation of the Jews in the Villages Around Manevichi and Our Escape into the Woods 428
My Impressions and Experiences with Kruk 431
The Approach of the Partisans 434
The Organization of Kruk's Unit 436
Survival in the Partisans 438
Experiences in the Partisans 440
At Their Death They Ordered Us To Take Revenge 444
About Kruk - the Secret Is Out 451
The First Action: Mahmed-Melamed's Character 456
Interviews With Jewish Partisans 461
Irving Porter (Yisroel Puchtik) 461
Moshe Flash and Jack Melamedik 469
Morris (Moshe) Kramer 470
Faygeh Marin Puchtik (Faye Porter) 471
Editor's Notes 482
Appendix
Additional Copyright Information: 486
Introduction Endnotes 488
Book One Endnotes 493
Sources 497
Individual Chapters 499
Photographic Sources 500
Map and Organizational Chart Sources 500
Book 1 Annotated Bibliography On Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust 501
I General References on the Holocaust and the Nazi Era 501
II General References on Jewish Resistance 506
III Specific Areas of Jewish Resistance 509
XV The Myth of Jewish Cowardice 515
V Faith and Despair in the Post-Holocaust Era 516
VI Jews in the Soviet Union 518
VII Miscellaneous Material 520
Book 2 Annotated Bibliography 521
A Books (English) 521
B Books (Hebrew and Yiddish) 523
C Books (Russian and Polish) 524
D Books (other languages) 525
E Articles 526
F Other Sources 527
New Books and Sources On Jewish Partisans and Resistance 528
German and Nazi Background 529
Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Soviet Background 530
World War II Background and Post-World War II Escape 531
Comparative Genocide 532
The Shoah 534
Jewish Resistance in General 535
Partisan Resistance in Particular 536
Woman, Gender, and Sexual Issues 538
Mass Culture, Cinema, Literature, and Poetry 539
Legacies 540
Glossary 542
Photos 545
Maps 593
Charts 605
Index Of Partisan Names & Groups 609
Individual Fighters 610
Partisan Groups 623
