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Title: |
A Partisan from Vilna |
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| By (author): |
Rachel Margolis Translated by: F. Jackson Piotrow Introduction by: Antony Polonsky |
| ISBN10-13: |
1934843954 : 9781934843956 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
155x230mm |
| Pages: |
520 |
| Weight: |
.754 Kg. |
| Published: |
Academic Studies Press - April 2010 |
| List Price: |
17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Pending Available
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| Subjects: |
Jewish studies |
| A Partisan of Vilna is the memoir of Rachel Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the FPO (United Partisan Organization) resistance movement and joined the Soviet partisans in the forests of Lithuania to sabotage the Nazis. Beginning with an account of Rachelâ s life as a precocious, privileged girl in pre-war Vilna, it goes on to detail life in the Vilna Ghetto, including the development of the FPO and its struggles against the Nazis. Finally, the book chronicles the escape of a group of FPO members into the forest of Belarus, where Rachel became a partisan fighter. Rather than â keep houseâ back at their bunker like other female partisans, Rachel demanded assignments to active duty alongside the men. Going on military assignments, she burned down a bridge, blew up railroad tracks, and helped bring in food supplies for her fellow partisans. The book opens with an introductory essay by renowned historian Antony Polonsky. |
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