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Defiance by Nechama Tec
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This author taught a couple of my classes at UCONN. She was a cool lady and a Holocaust survivor. She's written a few other books, but this was the only one I read all the way through.

It's a great story about the Bielski brothers--European Jews during WWII that led a band of armed partisans who hid in the forests and actually allowed women and children to stay with them despite the insane danger involved. They actually had a whole Jewish mini city in a thick swampy forest in Eastern Europe (I think Poland) that was *somewhat* inaccessible to German forces.

This is a *great* lesser-known story and if you're into Holocaust/WWII history definitely check it out. It reads like a novel and it really sticks with you.
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August 31, 2007 – Shelved
August 31, 2007 – Shelved as: non-fiction

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Meaghan It was Belarus, not Poland -- then as now, one of the poorest and most backward places in Europe.

I'm really surprised this story isn't better known. I think it would make a great action film.


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