Tec, Nechama.

Defiance - New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xxii, 374 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-352) and index.

Nechama Tec, herself a Holocaust survivor, offers a riveting history of a European Jewish group in western Belorussia led by Tuvia Bielski that would number more than 1,200 by 1944 and become the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.

9780195376852 0195376854

2009290304


Bielski, Tuvia.


Jews--Persecutions--Belarus.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belarus.
World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Belarus.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Belarus.


Belarus--Ethnic relations.

DS135.B38 / T33 2009

940.83/183209478