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Biografisk notat
Jack Nusan Porter, born in Rovno, Ukraine in 1944, is a true child survivor of the Holocaust, having lost twenty five members of his family. His parents were leaders in the Kruk-Maks Otryad (Fighting Group) in Volynhia, Ukraine from 1942-1944. He is currently an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union is a classic compilation of original Russian and Jewish sources on the anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe.
It is rooted in decades of research motivated by a desire to set the record straight on Jewish participation in resistance movements, a phenomenon often overlooked when not actively concealed.
As the son of Jewish partisans in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, Jack Porter presents here the result of his decades-long research: first-hand accounts and interviews with survivors and partisans, as well as some of their original work, and a seminal English translation of Partisan Brotherhood, a historical document gathered by Russian-Jewish intellectuals in 1948 at the height of anti-Semitic hysteria, written mainly by non-Jewish Soviet partisan commanders recounting the deeds of the Jewish fighters in their units.
“A remarkable collection of terrifying and inspiring testimonies from Jewish partisans who did what they could under appalling circumstances to resist the Nazis and wreak vengeance of their own. Faced with unrelenting threats from Nazis and neighbors alike, they took to the forests and organized raids, fighting to resist and ultimately survive.”
—Joshua Rubenstein, author of Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg