Publishers cloth. 8vo. 187 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Endpages contain maps of the areas around Lithuania and Latvia discussed in the stories. “These 20 tales of unsung Jewish heroes are true. They tell what happened to the author and his fellow Jews who, barehanded, overcame armed SS troops or literally crawled out of the mass grave dug for them, escaped to the woods and resisted the enemy in his attempt to destroy the remainder of the Jewish people. Included is the gripping account of a peasant who risks his life to hide Jews; the tracking down and public execution of an informer virtually under the eyes of the German garrison; and a heart-warming love story about two orphans who join the partisans and ultimately begin a new life together in Israel. ” (Dustjacket description) The author, Isaac Aron, was born near Vilna, was Hebrew principal in Krashnik before the occupation; he successfully escaped the ghetto of Miory when it was liquidated and formed a partisan group, he began writing poetry in the Ghetto, and after four years in DP camps, emigrated to Brooklyn; this is his first published volume in English. Subjects: Jews - Persecutions - Belarus. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Belarus. World War, 1939-1945 - Jewish resistance - Belarus. Belarus - Ethnic relations. Near fine condition in very good jacket. (HOLO2-100-50)