The Underground Army: Fighters of the Bialystok Ghetto by Chaika Grossman
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Overview: Originally published in 1965, Chaika Grossman’s The Underground Army has become a classic of Holocaust testimonials.
Chaika was born in Bialystok, Poland, in 1919, and joined the Hashomar Hatzair Youth movement as a teenager. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and began their brutal persecution of the Jews, she became one of the most prominent and active members of the resistance. Disguised by her Aryan looks and managing to obtain false identification papers, she acted as a delegate between Jewish ghettoes in Lithuania and Poland. She acquired arms for the fighters and when the famous Bialystok Ghetto Uprising took place in 1943 Chaika was there, fighting in the streets. After escaping the battle she organised rescue operations and the transfer of survivors into the surrounding forests. She was just twenty four years old.
The Bialystok Uprising was one of the great acts of resistance by the Jews in the horrific tragedy of the Holocaust. This book is both an important historical record and a dramatic, first-hand account. Chaika Grossman was a heroine, but she downplays her own role, always focused on the suffering of her fellows. Nonetheless, she emerges from the page as an extraordinarily courageous, resilient and brilliant young woman. Her astonishing story is told with clarity and immense sympathy, utterly engrossing and at times heart rending.
After the war Chaika Grossman served on the Central Committee of the Jews of Poland and was awarded Poland’s highest medal for heroism. It is estimated that of almost 60,000 Jews who lived in Bialystok before World War Two, only a few hundred survived the Holocaust.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs > Holocaust
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