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Cargando... Defiance: The Bielski Partisans (1993)por Nechama Tec
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Nessuno a Brooklyn si sarebbe mai immaginato che i tranquilli signori Bielski fossero degli eroi. Ora questo libro squarcia il velo sulla loro eccezionale impresa. Determinazione, intelligenza e disciplina sono le armi che hanno fatto di Tuvia Bielski e dei suoi fratelli le anime di un'imponente operazione di salvataggio di ebrei, realizzata dagli ebrei stessi, durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Rifugiatisi nelle foreste della Bielorussia, organizzarono un'unità partigiana con un obiettivo: salvare più persone possibile. Così l'unità Bielski accolse non solo giovani combattenti o abili sabotatori, ma anche donne, vecchi e bambini, diventando l'ultima speranza di gente disperata. Utterly inspiring account of three heroic Jewish brothers in WW2 Belarus; hiding from the Nazis in the vast, inhospitable forests, their initial small band of acquaintances rapidly becomes a small town, as more Jews flee the ghettos. Led by the charismatic Tuvia Bielski, his group stands out as one that turned no one away; while other detachments refused the frail, useless and unarmed...and were often guilty of anti-semitism...the Bielskis actively sought out all who wanted to come, their focus on saving lives than attacking the enemy (although there was, pleasingly, some of that too.) "Bielski was for us what Israel is for the Jews now...an insurance."Through interviews with all the major players in the 1980s, Tec writes a seemingly balanced account; the Bielskis had their detractors, moments when maybe things could have been done better. There were confrontations with bands of Nazis, cold and privation, dissent in the ranks, and a need to rub along with the groups of Russian patriots in the area... Sometimes (not often!) you finish a book so inspired by the character that you think "if I had a son right now, I'd name him after this person." This is not a novelization of the movie, but an actual true story of the Bielsky brothers. The language is a bit heavy, but worth getting through. The book does not idealize the brothers, but shows them as real human beings, warts and all. I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture by Zus Bielsky's son, and he described his father and uncle as "tough guys and sometimes a-holes." Of course they would have to be such to pull off the amazing rescue of Jews right under the Nazi's noses, then protect them and maintain the tough discipline that was needed to survive. This is not a light read by any measure, but a worthy one. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group, a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1,200 Jews by 1944--the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II. Tec reveals that this extraordinary community included both men and women, some with weapons, but mostly unarmed, ranging from infants to the elderly. She reconstructs for the first time the amazing details of how these partisans and their families--hungry, exposed to the harsh winter weather--managed not only to survive, but to offer protection to all Jewish fugitives who could find their way to them. Arguing that this success would have been unthinkable without the vision of one man, Tec offers penetrating insight into the group's commander, Tuvia Bielski. Tec brings to light the untold story of Bielski's struggle as a partisan who lost his parents, wife, and two brothers to the Nazis, yet never wavered in his conviction that it was more important to save one Jew than to kill twenty Germans. She shows how, under Bielski's guidance, the partisans smuggled Jews out of heavily guarded ghettos, scouted the roads for fugitives, and led retaliatory raids against Belorussian peasants who collaborated with the Nazis. Herself a Holocaust survivor, Nechama Tec here draws on wide-ranging research and never before published interviews with surviving partisans--including Tuvia Bielski himself--to reconstruct here the poignant and unforgettable story of those who chose to fight. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The focus of the book is on the leadership of Tuvia Bielski, what he and his brothers Zus and Asael did to rescue Jews and how his partisan group grew to be over 1200 by the end of the war. It wasn't just a matter of hiding from the Nazis. The group was on the move a lot, had to deal with conflict from within and eventually had to answer to leaders of Russian partisan groups.
Interesting read—highly recommended. ( )