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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. BOOK ONE
4. Acknowledgments XVII
5. Preface to the Combined Volume XIX
6. Preface to 1st Edition XXIII
7. Preface to the Fourth Edition XXIX
8. Introduction to the Original 1948 Russian Edition XXXI
9. Introduction: Jewish Resistance in the Soviet Union 1
10. Part One Prologue
11. The Partisan Tales of Shmuel Persov 35
12. A. “Your Name – A People” 38
13. B. Herschel, The Oven Builder 41
14. C. Forty-Two 45
15. D. Reisel and Hannah 50
16. Remember! 57
17. The Partisan Mine and Abraham Hirschfeld, the Watchmaker 60
18. Part Two Initiatives
19. The Partisan Oath 66
20. The Partisan Oath 67
21. Friendship 68
22. Without Fire… 78
23. Partisan Friendship 81
24. The Avengers of the Minsk Ghetto 88
25. Part Three Partisan Society
26. In the Forests of Bryansk 98
27. Meetings and Events 116
28. A Civilian Camp in the Forest 127
29. Partisan Alexander Abugov 129
30. The Partisan Filmmaker 146
31. Women Spies 157
32. Part Four Partisan Warfare
33. David Keimach 162
34. The Partisans of the Kaunas Ghetto 172
35. Talking of Friends 189
36. They Were Many 195
37. In the Tunnels of Odessa 199
38. Sonya Gutina 205
39. The Davidovich Family 207
40. Part Five Epilogue
41. Soviet Jews during and after the War of the Fatherland 212
42. Our Place 214
43. BOOK TWO
44. Preface 221
45. The Ten Commandments of the Holocaust 227
46. Part one Jewish Partisans in the Soviet Union: Latvia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia 1941-1944
47. The Kovpak Men 230
48. My Comrades in Arms 240
49. In the Struggle for Soviet Latvia 254
50. In White Russia 265
51. Three Fighters of My Unit 271
52. Victor Spotman 277
53. Typical Biographies 279
54. Two Partisans 283
55. Commissar Naum Feldman 285
56. The Lermontov Company 292
57. The Commander of the Boevoi Unit 295
58. Editor’s Notes 304
59. Part Two Jewish Partisans in Volyn and Polesia, Ukraine 1941-1944
60. In the Family Camp under Max’s Command 306
61. A Partisan’s Testimony 313
62. Stages in the Organization of the Partisan Fighting 318
63. In the Forest with Grandfather 322
64. A Town in the Woods 328
65. The First Days in the Woods 332
66. Exemplary Fighters 335
67. The Heroic Death of Two Young Friends 344
68. Deeds of a Child 349
69. I Decided to Defend My Life 357
70. A Commander Practices What He Preaches 369
71. A Hungry Boy 370
72. From a Partisan’s Notebook 372
73. My Life Under the Ukrainian-German Occupation 425
74. At Their Death They Ordered Us to Take Revenge 444
75. About Kruk — The Secret Is Out 451
76. The First Action: Mahmed-Melamed’s Character 456
77. Interviews with Jewish Partisans 461
78. Editor’s Notes 482
79. Appendix
80. Additional Copyright Information 486
81. Introduction Footnotes 488
82. Book One Footnotes 493
83. Sources 497
84. Annotated Bibliography on Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust 501
85. Book II Annotated Bibliography 521
86. New Books and Sources on Jewish Partisans and Resistance 528
87. Glossary 542
88. Photos, Maps, & Charts 545
89. Index of Partisan Names & Groups 609