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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781451403321

Autore

Margolis Rachel

Titolo

A Partisan from Vilna / / Rachel Margolis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-61811-121-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (520 p.)

Collana

Jews of Poland

Altri autori (Persone)

Jackson PiotrowF

PolonskyAntony

Disciplina

940.54864793

Soggetti

Fareyniḳṭe parṭizaner organizatsye (Vilnius, Lithuania) -- Biography

Margolis, Raḥel

Women guerrillas -- Belarus -- Biography

Women guerrillas -- Lithuania -- Biography

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Lithuanian

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belarus

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Lithuania

Women guerrillas - Underground movements - Lithuania

Women guerrillas - Underground movements - Belarus

World War, 1939-1945 - Lithuania

World War, 1939-1945 - Belarus

World War, 1939-1945 - Vilnius - Lithuania

World War, 1939-1945

Jewish women

History & Archaeology

History - General

Biographies.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / Margolis, Marjorie -- INTRODUCTION / Polonsky, Antony -- LALECZKA



(YEARS 1927-1931) -- THE GATEWAY TO HELL -- GHETTO -- PARTISANS -- AFTERWORD / Margolis, Marjorie -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INDEX OF NAMES -- GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 Rachel'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 "keep house" 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.