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In the lion's den: the life of Oswald Rufeisen.
Published by Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 2008
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PAPERBACK, very good copy, light wear, front cover curled, slight wear to lower corners. TEC, NECHAMA. In the lion's den: the life of Oswald Rufeisen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 1st printing number line starting with 1, x, 279pp., . A moving biography of Oswald Rufeisen, a Jew who passed as a Christian in occupied Poland, worked as a translator for the German police, and risked his life to save hundreds from the Nazis. Denounced, he escaped and found shelter in a convent, where he became a Catholic and later a priest and monk - CONTENTS: Acknowledgments ; 1. Before and Into the War ; 2. In Search of Solutions ; 3. Imprisonment ; 4. Life on the Farm ; 5. Becoming Someone Else ; 6. The Town of Mir ; 7. Becoming a Police Officer ; 8. Working for the Authorities ; 9. The Savior of Simakowo ; 10. Involvement with the Ghetto ; 11. Organizing the Escape ; 12. Exodus and Confrontation ; 13. Conversion ; 14. Moving to the Forest ; 15. Life as a Partisan ; 16. Becoming a Carmelite Monk and a Priest ; 17. A Catholic Jew? ; 18. An Independent Life ; Notes ; Index. ISBN 9780195383478.
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Defiance: the Bielski partisans.
Published by New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 1993
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very good price-clipped dust-jacket with some wear around edges, tiny tears, very good green half-cloth with blue boards, light wear, perhaps gently read. TEC, NECHAMA. Defiance: the Bielski partisans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xiii, 276pp., . The Bielski partisans operated in the forests of Belorussia, where they both fought the Nazis and attempted to rescue Jews. By 1944, they numbered 1,200 persons, and constituted the largest Jewish rescue operation in occupied Europe. - CONTENTS: Before the War -- The Russian Occupation -- The German Invasion -- The Beginning of the Bielski Otriad -- Escapes from the Ghetto -- The Partisan Network -- Rescue or Resistance -- Eluding the Enemy -- The "Big Hunt," -- Building a Forest Community -- The Emergence of New Social Arrangements -- The Fate of Women -- Keeping Order -- The End of the Otriad -- From Self-Preservation to Rescue. 9780195075953 ISBN 0195075951.
