Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union during World War II

Jack Nusan Porter was a founder of the Jewish Student Movement in the 1960s and editor of the classic movement anthology Jewish Radicalism. He is an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a former associate of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute. His run for US Congress in the12th District of Massachusetts was the subject of a profile in the April 9, 2012 “Talk of the Town” in The New Yorker. In 2015, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the prediction and eradication of genocide and Holocaust.

“A remarkable collection of terrifying and inspiring testimonies from Jewish partisans who did what they could under appalling circumstances to resist the Nazis and wreak vengeance of their own. Faced with unrelenting threats from Nazis and neighbors alike, they took to the forests and organized raids, fighting to resist and ultimately survive.”