The Story of an underground : [the resistance of the Jews of Kovno in the Second World War]
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Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knyga / Book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
The Story of an underground: [the resistance of the Jews of Kovno in the Second World War]
Authors:
Editors:
Setbon, Jessica, vertimas [trl]
Publication Data:
Jerusalem : Gefen Publishing House Ltd., 2014.
Pages:
xxxi, 496 p
Contents:
Foreword — Preface — Introduction — Key to abbreviations used in footnotes — Ravage and horror — Murder and plunder — The ghetto in frenzy — Birth of the underground — The awakening — Toward active resistance — The first breakthrough — Escape from the fortress of death — Momentum — The partisan forest receives the ghetto fighters — The preparations behind the departures to the forest — The resistance movement in the labor camps — War of revenge — The birth of the Kovno battalions — Way of life and social relations in the partisan units — Supply and defense activities — Partisan missions — The final days — Last days of the Kovno Ghetto — Liberation — Appendix 1: Members of the resistance movement in the Kovno Ghetto — Appendix II: Index of witnesses — Appendix III: Map of Kovno Ghetto — Suggested reading — Bibliography — About the authors — Index.
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Summary / Abstract:
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Antrasis pasaulinis karas, 1939-1945 (World War II); Holokaustas; Holokaustas Lietuvoje; Kauno getas; Lietuvos žydai; Naciai; Žydai; Žydų kovotojai; Holocaust; Holocaust in Lithuania; Jewish fighters; Jews; Kaunas ghetto; Lithuanian Jews; Nazis; Second World War.
ISBN:
9789652296160
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Survivors, collaborators and partisans? Bringing Jewish ghetto policemen before Soviet justice in Lithuania / Alain Blum, Thomas Chopard, Emilia Koustova. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. 2020, vol. 68, no. 2, p. 222-255.
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