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Author Margolis, Raḥel.

Title A partisan from Vilna / Rachel Margolis ; translated by F. Jackson Piotrow
Published Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (542 pages) : illustrations
Series Jews of Poland
Jews of Poland.
Contents Rachel Margolis -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- LALECZKA -- THE GATEWAY TO HELL -- GHETTO -- PARTISANS -- AFTERWORD -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INDEX OF NAMES -- GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX
Summary 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
Notes "The translation of this book was made possible by the generosity of Erwin Greenberg."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
Subject Margolis, Raḥel.
SUBJECT Margolis, Raḥel fast
Subject Fareyniḳṭe parṭizaner organizatsye (Vilnius, Lithuania) -- Biography
SUBJECT Fareyniḳṭe parṭizaner organizatsye (Vilnius, Lithuania) fast
Subject Women guerrillas -- Lithuania -- Biography
Women guerrillas -- Belarus -- Biography
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Lithuania
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belarus
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Lithuanian
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Jewish women -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Jewish women
War -- Underground movements
Women guerrillas
SUBJECT Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Biography
Subject Belarus
Lithuania
Lithuania -- Vilnius
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Personal narratives
Autobiographies
Biographies
Personal narratives
Personal narratives
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Récits personnels.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Piotrow, F. Jackson
ISBN 9781618111210
1618111213
Other Titles Nemnogo sveta vo mrake. English