Ghetto

FUN MINSKER GETO

1946 · ref. 30905 — Moskve: Melukhe-farlag "Der Emes 1946. 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 10000 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 5000 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. SUBJECTS : 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. Moskve: Melukhe-farlag "Der Emes unknown