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The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism | 
 enlarge | Author: Barbara Epstein
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Sales Rank: 214654
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 376
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.4
ISBN: 0520242424
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.53185786
EAN: 9780520242425
ASIN: 0520242424
Publication Date: July 28, 2008
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Product Description
Drawing from engrossing survivors' accounts, many never before published, The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943 recounts a heroic yet little-known chapter in Holocaust history. In vivid and moving detail, Barbara Epstein chronicles the history of a Communist-led resistance movement inside the Minsk ghetto, which, through its links to its Belarussian counterpart outside the ghetto and with help from others, enabled thousands of ghetto Jews to flee to the surrounding forests where they joined partisan units fighting the Germans. Telling a story that stands in stark contrast to what transpired across much of Eastern Europe, where Jews found few reliable allies in the face of the Nazi threat, this book captures the texture of life inside and outside the Minsk ghetto, evoking the harsh conditions, the life-threatening situations, and the friendships that helped many escape almost certain death. Epstein also explores how and why this resistance movement, unlike better known movements at places like Warsaw, Vilna, and Kovno, was able to rely on collaboration with those outside ghetto walls. She finds that an internationalist ethos fostered by two decades of Soviet rule, in addition to other factors, made this extraordinary story possible.
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