I myself will need to rely on Google Translate, and cant devote the time to it right now, but these are amazing photo collages and very well worth contemplating, and of course a picture is worth a thousand words. I do have a good source for an underappreciated part of this tragic history, in English: Barbara Epstein, The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism (Berkeley, CA and London: The University of California Press, 2008). Heres something from the dust jacket: Drawing from engrossing survivors accounts, many never before published, The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943 recounts a heroic yet little-known chapter in Holocaust history. In vivid and moving detail, Barbara Epstein chronicles the history of a Communist-led resistance movement inside the Minsk ghetto, which, through its links to its Belarussain counterpart outside the ghetto and with help from others, enabled thousands of ghetto Jews to flee to the surrounding forests, where they joined partisan units fighting the Germans. Telling a story that stands in stark contrast to what transpired across much of Eastern Europe, where Jews found few reliable allies in the face of the Nazi threat, this book captures the texture of life inside and outside the Minsk ghetto, evoking the harsh conditions, the life-threatening situations, and the friendships that helped many escape almost certain death. Epstein also explores how and why this resistance movement, unlike better known movements at places like Warsaw, Vilna, and Kovno, was able to rely on collaboration with those outside ghetto walls. Barbara Epstein is Professor in the History of Consciousness Department [lofty!] at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the Seventies and Eighties (UC Press), among other books. amazon/The-Minsk-Ghetto-1941-1943-Internationalism/dp/0520242424
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:47:19 +0000
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