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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1992]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231911344
  • 9780231882224
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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