JOANNE GILBERT, WOMEN OF VALOR: POLISH JEWISH RESISTERS TO THE THIRD REICH

222 pages, winner of FAPA President’s Book Award. Based on Gilbert’s 1st-hand interviews, these remarkable true stories of the young Polish Jewish women who actively and successfully defied the Nazis provide a new perspective on women and the Holocaust.

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Michael Berenbaum: “That these women defied the odds and survived is a tribute to their ability to maintain their humanity despite the overpowering forces that were determined to destroy them. They refused to be passive.”

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Kirkus Reviews: “Well-researched and powerful; challenges readers to consider the heroism and struggles of women’s resistance.”

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FAYE SCHULMAN, A PARTISAN’S MEMOIR: WOMAN OF THE HOLOCAUST

From the introduction: “I feel compelled to speak for those who were tragically silenced. So little has been written — it has almost been kept a secret — about the bravery of the Jewish partisans. I served in the partisan resistance, as one of thousands of Jewish men and women who joined the partisan movement and engaged in daily attacks, ambushes and battles against the enemy. Many partisan fighters were mere children — teenagers like myself — entrusted with the weight of adult responsibility. They never gave up. They fought for revenge, for honor and dignity, for an end to the murder and an end to the war, many to their last breath.”

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