Fighting Back : : A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in World War II /

Fighting Back : : A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in World War II / / Harold Werner; Mark Werner.

This is a personal story of survival by Hershel Zimmerman, later known as Harold Werner, who survived the Holocaust in the woods of Eastern Poland.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
VerfasserIn:
Werner, Harold,
TeilnehmendeR:
Gilbert, Martin.
Werner, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1992]
©1992
Year of Publication:1992
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Explanation of Names, Places, and Events
  • Foreword: Harold Werner - Story of Jewish Resistance
  • Preface
  • Editor's Acknowledgments
  • Maps
  • 1. Life in Warsaw Before the Storm
  • 2. The Jewish Dilemma
  • 3. Outbreak of War
  • 4. The Trek Toward Russia
  • 5. Life in Hola
  • 6. Work as a Farm Hand
  • 7. Childhood Remembrances
  • 8. Remembrances of Life in the Big City
  • 9. The Germans Invade Russia
  • 10. Ominous News from Warsaw
  • 11. The Winter of 1941-42
  • 12. Betrayal at the Hands of the Hola Farmers
  • 13. The Zamolodycze Raid
  • 14. I Lose Manya in the Skorodnica Forest
  • 15. The Hunt
  • 16. Taking the Offensive
  • 17. A Short Stay in the Makoszka Forest
  • 18. Our First Attack Against the Germans
  • 19. March 1943
  • 20. Rescuing Jews from the Wlodawa Ghetto
  • 21. We Join Chiel Grynszpan's Partisans
  • 22. Rescuing Jews from the Adampol Labor Camp
  • 23. Spies
  • 24. A Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
  • 25. An Ambush and a Happy Reunion
  • 26. Successful Raids After Joining the Army Ludowa
  • 27. A Sad Reunion
  • 28. A Second Encounter with Zaremba
  • 29. Donachy Gets Her Revenge
  • 30. The Sobibor Death Camp
  • 31. On the Offensive in the Fall of 1943
  • 32. Destruction of Our Base in the Ochoza Forest
  • 33. Destruction of the Ostrow Lubelski Garrison
  • 34. Escape from Encirclement
  • 35. Murder at the Hands of the Army Krajowa
  • 36. Our First Parachute Drop
  • 37. The Winter of 1943-44
  • 38. Spring 1944
  • 39. A Pitched Battle
  • 40. Liberation
  • 41. Disillusionment and Departure
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary of Names
  • Index

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