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Areas in which specifically
Jewish partisan groups attacked and harassed
the German occupation forces.
Areas in which specifically Jewish patisan groups
attacked and harassed the German occupation forces.
Thirty-eight of the towns and villages in eastern
Europe near which Jewish partisan groups were
active in the behind-the-lines struggle against
the
German occupation forces, attacking German troops
cutting railway lines, and forming focal points for
local anti-Nazi resistance. Those who were captured
were all tortured and shot. Several thousand Jews
also fought in Soviet and Polish partisan units.
Jewish soldiers from Palestine and Britain who were
parachuted behind enemy lines, in order to link up
with resistance groups.
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