FUN MINSKER GETO פונ מינסקער געטא
Moskve: Melukhe-farlag "Der Emes" 1946. Item #30905
1st edition. Original Printed Boards, Small 8vo, 167 pages. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "From the Minsk Ghetto." Title also in Russian: Minskoe getto.
In 1941, a group of Jews (among them the Polish Jew Hersh Smolar; 1905–1993) [the author] organized a resistance movement in the ghetto in close connection with the Minsk Communist underground, led by Isay Kazinets (1910–1942) and Masha Bruskina (1924–1941). Members of the resistance organized acts of sabotage and, working together with the Judenrat (led by Il’ia Mushkin), diverted the production of the ghetto’s workshops and factories to the partisans. An underground printing press issued the leaflet Vestnik rodiny (Homeland’s Messenger).
The resistance enabled thousands of Jews to escape to the forests, where they founded seven partisan brigades, one of which, in September 1943, organized the assassination of the governor-general of Belorussia, Wilhelm Kube.
Approximately 10,000 Minsk Jews succeeded in escaping from the ghetto, a proportion without parallel in Holocaust history. At liberation, 13 Jews had survived the ghetto and about 5,000 Jewish partisans and their families returned from the forests.
In 1945, the first memorial to Jewish victims in Minsk—and the only one in the USSR with a Yiddish inscription explicitly mentioning the Jewishness of the victims—was erected” (Bemporad, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe).
SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Persecutions -- Belarus -- Minsk. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Minsk -- Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Belarus -- Minsk. Named Person: Smolar, Hersh, 1905- Geographic: Minsk (Belarus) -- Ethnic relations.
OCLC: 12284925. Small stain to title page, Jewish institutional stamp on final page, rear of title page, and text block edges (no other markings), spine neatly rebacked, new endpapers, Good condition. (B) (YID-17-15-ALBXGGCCOE).
Price: $150.00