Fighting Back

A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in World War II

By: Harold Werner, Mark Werner (Editor), Martin Gilbert (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 27 October 1994 | Edition Number 1

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"Fighting Back" is more than a tale of survival, it is the extraordinary memoir of a survivor who outlasted Hitler's Holocaust "not in a concentration camp, but in the woods of eastern Poland" as a leader of successful Jewish resistance during World War II. Written to dispel the myth of Jewish passivity, Harold Werner recounts his experiences as a member of a large Jewish partisan unit, which aggressively conducted military missions against the German army in occupied Poland. The unit of young Jews, men and women, received air drops from the Russians, wiped out local German garrisons, blew up German trains, and even shot down German planes. In addition to their military sabotage, these partisans rescued Jews from ghetto imprisonment and slave labour detail and provided a safe haven in the Parczew Forest for other Jews who escaped the Nazi extermination camps. Few, if any, accounts of Jewish survival during the Holocaust describe such a rare combination of victorious military activities and humanitarian efforts in successful large-scale Jewish resistance against the Nazis.

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A tale of astonishing success--the small groups slowly grew, joined with other groups, and became a partisan force able to blow up bridges, attack German convoys, rescue other Jews, and exact revenge for earlier betrayals . . . This account has the authority of unvarnished human testimony; Mr. Werner's matter-of-fact tone makes the story he tells all the more horrifying. "A tale of astonishing success--the small groups slowly grew, joined with other groups, and became a partisan force able to blow up bridges, attack German convoys, rescue other Jews, and exact revenge for earlier betrayals... This account has the authority of unvarnished human testimony; Mr. Werner's matter-of-fact tone makes the story he tells all the more horrifying." -- "The New Yorker"

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Explanation of Names, Places, and Events
Foreword
Preface
Editor's Acknowledgments
Life in Warsaw Before the Storm	p. 1
The Jewish Dilemma	p. 6
Outbreak of War	p. 11
The Trek Toward Russia	p. 16
Life in Hola	p. 23
Work as a Farm Hand	p. 28
Childhood Remembrances	p. 32
Remembrances of Life in the Big City	p. 43
The Germans Invade Russia	p. 57
Ominous News from Warsaw	p. 64
The Winter of 1941-42	p. 68
Betrayal at the Hands of the Hola Farmers	p. 72
The Zamolodycze Raid	p. 79
I Lose Manya in the Skorodnica Forest	p. 87
The Hunt	p. 93
Taking the Offensive	p. 96
A Short Stay in the Makoszka Forest	p. 101
Our First Attack Against the Germans	p. 107
March 1943	p. 111
Rescuing Jews from the Wlodawa Ghetto	p. 116
We Join Chiel Grynszpan's Partisans	p. 126
Rescuing Jews from the Adampol Labor Camp	p. 137
Spies	p. 143
A Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	p. 146
An Ambush and a Happy Reunion	p. 149
Successful Raids After Joining the Army Ludowa	p. 154
A Sad Reunion	p. 160
A Second Encounter with Zaremba	p. 164
Donachy Gets Her Revenge	p. 167
The Sobibor Death Camp	p. 170
On the Offensive in the Fall of 1943	p. 176
Destruction of Our Base in the Ochoza Forest	p. 183
Destruction of the Ostrow Lubelski Garrison	p. 186
Escape from Encirclement	p. 188
Murder at the Hands of the Army Krajowa	p. 194
Our First Parachute Drop	p. 197
The Winter of 1943-44	p. 201
Spring 1944	p. 208
A Pitched Battle	p. 216
Liberation	p. 222
Disillusionment and Departure	p. 232
Epilogue	p. 236
Glossary of Names	p. 237
Index	p. 239
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