jewish soldiers

Seventeen-year-old Edmund describes his ragtag band of Jewish partisans who hide in the Ukrainian forest during World War II and sabotage the Nazi war effort without sacrificing their morality. As they rescue Jews from the countryside, they draw strength from the community around them. When the Red Army advances and the Germans retreat, they attempt to stop a train heading for a concentration camp, with bittersweet results.

During World War II, a group of Jewish partisans fight together to end the Nazis supreme. Seventeen-year-old Edmund maintains his own inner resolve with memories of his parents and their life before the war.

Abrashe Szabrinski used the Yiddish typewriter given to him by his son Joe to record his unique story of survival and courage during the dark days of World War II. But it was only after his father's death that Joe found out the extent of Abrashe's exploits as a leader of the partisans who fought the Nazis in the forests of Lithuania. An officer in the Polish army, Abrashe fled ghettos and forced labor camps, joined the resistance in Vilna, and became not only a fighter, but also commander of partisan units serving under the Red Army. Alongside well-known figures such as Abba Kovner, he helped blow up bridges, railroad tracks, and munitions convoys, slowing down the Nazi war machine. An outspoken critic of those who headed the Judenrat as well as leaders of ideological movements, his straightforward, unpretentious style makes his descriptions of heroic deeds riveting. Like many Holocaust survivors, Abrashe did not divulge the entire story of his survival to his children while he was alive.

A YA memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front.

Documents the contributions of Jews in America from colonial times to the present, in peace and in war.

Story of a Polish Jew who fled to the Soviet Union after Germany invaded Poland and served in the Soviet Army.

Presents the correspondence of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann and her rescuer and later husband, American soldier Kurt Klein, sent between May 16, 1945 and May 27, 1946, in which they shared stories of their childhoods, their families, their wartime experiences and emotions, and their growing love for each other.

After centuries of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage in German society, Hitler found that eliminating Jews from the rest of the German population was more difficult than he had anticipated. Perhaps as many as 150,000 military men were classified by the Nazis as partial-Jews (this included decorated veterans, high-ranking officers, generals, and admirals). Many of these men did not consider themselves Jewish and had been fully absorbed into the German armed forces. Investigation and removal was hard and Hitler himself signed many exemption orders. But, as the war dragged on, even in the face of dwindling numbers of German soldiers, more and more of these partial-Jews met the same Holocaust fate as millions of other Jews in Hitler's Europe.