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Chargement... The Minsk Ghetto: Soviet-Jewish Partisans Against the Nazispar Hersh Smolar
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)947.652History and Geography Europe Russia and eastern Europe [and formerly Finland] Moldova, Transnistria [Belarus now 947.8] [Western Russia now 947.3]Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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What Marek Edelman's The Ghetto Fights was to the Warsaw Ghetto and Chaika Grossman's The Underground Army was to the Bialystok Ghetto, Hersh Smolar's book is to Minsk. Already in his mid-thirties by the time the war began, he was one of the principal leaders of the Jewish resistance in Minsk. This resistance movement has been unjustly neglected and it was really quite substantial, focusing not only on fighting the Nazis but also rescuing Jewish noncombatants such as children, old people, etc. Some 10,000 Minsk Jews were able to escape the ghetto into the nearby forests.
Smolar isn't writing about himself, but rather the movement in general, in a matter-of-fact tone with no flourishes. He concludes the book with some troubling stories about post-war Soviet anti-Semitism; even in the forests, anti-Semetic partisans sometimes shot their fellow Jewish fighters for no reason.
This might be good to read alongside books on the Bielski partisan group, which was also from Belarus; the Bielskis are mentioned in passing in Smolar's account. ( )