Book Review: Heroism in the Forest: The Jewish Partisans of Belarus
[FULL DISCLOSURE: I received my copy of this book free from the author. I was not paid for this review and the opinion expressed is purely my own] Heroism in the Forest: The Jewish Partisans of Belarus is a book about one of the least told aspects World War II in the East, The Partisan fight against the Nazis. Specifically, the struggle of Jewish partisans in Belarus who not only had to deal with the Nazi menace but often had as much to fear from non-Jewish Russians as they did from the Nazis. The partisan fighting in Russia is a little known aspect of WWII, and the part played by Russian Jews … More after the Jump…