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13 halftones, 2 line illustrations
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195x128mm
978-0-19-538523-6
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Paperback
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11 December 2008
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- Now a major motion picture starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber, by the director of Blood Diamond and Glory
- Features a foreword by Edward Zwick and new preface by the author
- Gripping narrative history of the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II
- Combines careful research and rare exclusive interviews with key surviving members, including Tuvia Bielski himself, 2 weeks before his death in 1987
- Includes historic photographs of several key members
- Upends common belief that Jews during WWII "went like sheep to the slaughter"
- "Powerful and meticulousDefiance must be cherished" - Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic
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.
"The saga of the Bielski partisans is one of the most elevating and inspiring stories in the chronicle of death and despair that is the Holocaust.... Defiance is an accomplished and startling work of Holocaust documentation."
--Los Angeles Times
"Powerful and meticulous. This story is like almost no other."
--Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic
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Nechama Tec, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut, Stamford
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Foreword by Edward Zwick, film director
New Preface by the author
1: Before the War
2: The Russian Occupation
3: The German Invasion
4: The Beginning of the Bielski Otriad
5: Escapes from the Ghetto
6: The Partisan Network
7: Rescue or Resistance
8: Eluding the Enemy
9: The Big Hunt
10: Building a Forest Community
11: The Emergence of New Social Arrangements
12: The Fate of Women
13: Keeping Order
14: The End of the Otria
15: From Self-Preservation to Rescue
Notes
Biographical Appendix
Organization of the Bielski Otriad
Glossary
Index
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