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Since the Middle Ages, Vilnius, Lithuania, has been a main center of Jewish cultural, religious, social and political activity. At one time, half of the population was Jewish, but everything changed during the Holocaust: the Jewish community was destroyed by the Nazis and their collaborators--but some refused to surrender without a fight. Witenberg and Sheinbaum were the leaders of the Jewish underground resistance in Vilnius; the Germans appointed Gens as Jewish Head of the ghetto. Each of them had the same objectives: personal and communal survival--yet all three perished. This book compares the * different approach of each man to the issues of resistance and survival * illuminates the specific problems of Jewish resistance * considers the larger dilemma of survival during the Nazi era
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