Defiance: The Bielski Partisans

Drawing on her extensive research and never before published interviews with surviving partisans -- including Tuvia Bielski himself two weeks before his death in 1987 -- Tec poignantly corrects history's conspicuous silence about Jews, who while themselves threatened by death, were saving others. And more important, she corrects the seriously distorted image of European Jews as victims who went passively to their deaths.