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Vividly describes the courage, strategy, and loyalty of the Jews in accounts of the activity of resistance groups in the ghettos and labor and concentration camps. Bibliogs
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This is the book, first published in 1967, that got me interested in Jewish resistance. Yuri was a gamin-looking man with delightful eyes and personality. He was also a novelist, poet, biographer, and friend, but being a Communist limited his influence and impact in America except in progressive Jewish circles.
His book is a first-hand account of resistance during the Shoah in the forests, camps, ghettos, and military in all areas of Europe—Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Belgium, and Italy. It was highly praised by both Elie Wiesel—“Read Yuri Suhl's book and you will never again ask why they went…
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