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The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism

Door Barbara Epstein

Categorie	Geschiedenis Rusland
Boeknummer	#411017-XU19
Titel	The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism
Auteur	Epstein, Barbara
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Berkelet : University of California Press
Jaar van uitgave	2008
ISBN10	0520242424
ISBN13	9780520242425
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, small maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Drawing from engrossing survivors' accounts, many never before published, The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943 recounts a heroic yet little-known chapter in Holocaust history. In vivid and moving detail, Barbara Epstein chronicles the history of a Communist-led resistance movement inside the Minsk ghetto, which, through its links to its Belarussian counterpart outside the ghetto and with help from others, enabled thousands of ghetto Jews to flee to the surrounding forests where they joined partisan units fighting the Germans. Telling a story that stands in stark contrast to what transpired across much of Eastern Europe, where Jews found few reliable allies in the face of the Nazi threat, this book captures the texture of life inside and outside the Minsk ghetto, evoking the harsh conditions, the lif... (Lees verder)e-threatening situations, and the friendships that helped many escape almost certain death. Epstein also explores how and why this resistance movement, unlike better known movements at places like Warsaw, Vilna, and Kovno, was able to rely on collaboration with those outside ghetto walls. She finds that an internationalist ethos fostered by two decades of Soviet rule, in addition to other factors, made this extraordinary story possible.
Pagina's	351
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 40,00

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