Jewish partisans and Soviet resistance in Lithuania
TitleJewish partisans and Soviet resistance in Lithuania
Author
Call number940.5337/0050
Object number05996r
Place of publicationBern, Switzerland
PublisherPeter Lang AG
Year of publication
2004
Physical descriptionpp459-478
MaterialArticle
ISBN3039102451
NotesArticle from the book 'Collaboration and resistance during the Holocaust' pp459-478
Description
Describes the development of partisan units in Lithuania. By the auutumn of 1942, partisan warfare was a mass movement that could include members 'regardless of backgound, social profile, nationality, training or skills'. Jews who fled Vilnius and Kaunas sometimes formed a majority. Of 3910 Sovist partisans in Lithuania, 676 were Jewish.