Over 500,000 Jews fought under the Soviet banner in World War Two, of which an approximate 40 percent gave their lives, the highest percentage of all the nations of the Soviet Union and among all the other nations that fought in the Second World War. This book sets the record straight on the immense contribution of Soviet Jewry in the battle against Nazi Germany, a part of history long concealed by the Soviet government. The book documents the contributions of Soviet Jewry on the battlefronts and in the weapons development industry, in the ghetto undergrounds and in partisan warfare. In addition, the book records the Soviet government s deliberate attempts to downplay the Jewish effort and the anti-Semitism that Jewish soldiers and partisan groups suffered at the hands of the Soviet establishment, even while giving their lives for their country.