Fighting Back: Lithuanian Jewry’s Armed Resistance to the Nazis, 1941–1945
  • 1985/298 pages
  • Distributed for Holmes & Meier Publishers

Fighting Back:

Lithuanian Jewry’s Armed Resistance to the Nazis, 1941–1945

Dov Levin, translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Kohn and Dina Cohen
Paperback: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-8419-1389-9
Fighting Back chronicles the activities of the Lithuanian Jews who fought against the Nazis—in the Soviet army, in the forests, in the ghettos of Vilna, Kovno, Shavli, and Svencian, and even in the concentration camps. Dov Levin, a member of the Kovno ghetto underground and then a fighter with the Lithuanian partisans, brings both meticulous scholarship and his own personal experience to this richly detailed account of battles fought on a little-known front.
Dov Levin, now deceased, was director of the Oral History Division of the Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was awarded the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize in Military History for his work on the armed struggle of the Lithuanian Jews during World War II.