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Author Margolis, Raḥel.

Title A partisan from Vilna / Rachel Margolis ; translated by F. Jackson Piotrow.

Publication Info. Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (542 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome.
Description text file
Series Jews of Poland
Jews of Poland.
Note "The translation of this book was made possible by the generosity of Erwin Greenberg."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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
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Language English.
Subject Margolis, Raḥel.
Margolis, Raḥel.
Fareyniḳṭe parṭizaner organizatsye (Vilnius, Lithuania) -- Biography.
Fareyniḳṭe parṭizaner organizatsye (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Women guerrillas -- Lithuania -- Biography.
Women guerrillas.
Lithuania.
Women guerrillas -- Belarus -- Biography.
Belarus.
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)
Genre/Form Personal narratives -- Lithuanian.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Genre/Form Personal narratives -- Jewish.
Subject Jewish women -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography.
Jewish women.
Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
Lithuania -- Vilnius.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
War -- Underground movements.
Chronological Term 1939 - 1945
Genre/Form Autobiography.
Personal Narrative.
Electronic books.
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Added Author Piotrow, F. Jackson.
Added Title Nemnogo sveta vo mrake. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010019465
Other Form: Print version: Margolis, Raḥel. Nemnogo sveta vo mrake. English. Partisan from Vilna. Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2010 9781934843918 (DLC) 2010012946 (OCoLC)468966109
ISBN 9781618111210 (electronic book)
1618111213 (electronic book)
1934843911 (hardback)
9781934843956 (paperback)
1934843954 (paperback)
9781934843918
Standard No. 10.1515/9781618111210.