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A holocaust survivor tells of the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during World War II. Tec describes an extraordinary hidden forest community of 1, 200 Jews who were led by peasant-turned-partisan Tuvia Bielski.

A Jew passing as a Christian in occupied Poland during WWII, Oswald Rufeisen worked as translator and personal secretary to a Nazi commander of the German police, repeatedly risking his life to save hundreds from the Nazis. This text offers a portrait of the Jewish rescuer during the Holocaust and its aftermath.

Everyone knows the name of Anne Frank but few people remember anything about the people who sheltered her. Who were the rescuers and what motivated them to risk their lives for persecuted Jews? Clearly such people deserve to be remembered and honored. And clearly an understanding of their motivations may help us cultivate such behavior in our own day.Focusing on such "righteous Christians, " Tec, herself a survivor helped by Poles, vividly rec...

This is the true story of Nechama Tec, whose family found refuge with Polish Christians during the Holocaust. Dry Tears is a dramatic tale of how an eleven-year-old child learned to "pass in the forbidding Christian world and a quietly moving coming-of-age story. This book is unique celebration of the best human qualities that surface under the worst conditions.

Few lives shed more light on the complex relationship between Jews and Christians during and after the Holocaust--or provide a more moving portrait of courage--than Oswald Rufeisen's. A Jew passing as a Christian in occupied Poland, Rufeisen worked as translator for the German police--thevery people who rounded up and murdered the Jews--and repeatedly risked his life to save hundreds from the Nazis. In this gripping biography, Nechama Tec, a w...

In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1, 200 Jews by 1944 and which would undertake the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.

In this careful study of Jewish and non-Jewish resistance during World War II, Holocaust scholar Tec Nechama argues that Jews were not passive or submissive in the face of German oppression, but that their efforts had different aims and expressions than those of their non-Jewish counterparts.

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In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1, 200 Jews by 1944 and which would undertake the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.

In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1, 200 Jews by 1944 and which would undertake the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.

The true story of the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during World War II, this book is the base of a movie starring Daniel Craig that will be released December 12, 2008.

Tuvia Bielski war ein mutiger und charismatischer Mann und er kämpfte als Partisan im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Unter Einsatz seines Lebens hat er unzählige Juden gerettet und bis zum Eintreffen der Roten Armee in den unzugänglichen Wäldern Weißrussland versteckt.Seine Devise lautet: »Es ist besser, einen Juden zu retten, als tausend Deutsche zu töten.« So kam es, dass sich in der Zeit von 1942 bis 1945 bis zu 1200 Personen * Männer, Frauen und Kinde...

In this riveting book Nechama Tec offers insights into the differences between the experiences of Jewish women and men during the Holocaust. Her research draws on a variety of sources: wartime diaries, postwar memoirs, a range of archival materials, and most important, direct interviews with Holocaust survivors. Tec reveals how women and men on the road to annihilation developed distinct coping strategies and how mutual cooperation and compass...