Even Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize winning survivor of Auschwitz and
Buchenwald, struggles with the question: Why didn't the Jews fight
back? And finally, in view of the circumstances--even now, who
would believe what was happening?--he concludes that the question
is "not why all the Jews did NOT fight, but how do many of them
DID. Tormented, beaten, starved, where did they find the
strength--spiritual and physical--to resist?" In fact, over
10,000 German Jews--34 percent of the refugee population between
the ages of eighteen and forty--fought in the allied armies of
World War II.
This book honors those European-born Jewish combat veterans of
World War II--refugees from the Nazi regime in Germany and Austria
who faced their persecutors by joining the Allied Forces in a fight
against the country of their birth. These twenty-seven interviews
take readers into the unique and harrowing experience of German and
Austrian Jews who served as Allied soldiers in North Africa and
Europe--brave men and one woman whose service restored a sense of
dignity and allowed them to rise above their former victimization
at the hands of Nazi oppressors. All burned with anger at the
Germans who had subjected them, often as young children, to cruelty
in everyday life in their hometowns, and to ridicule in the
national media. As soldiers who knew the language and psychology of
the enemy better than any of their comrades, they struck back with
new-found pride against the rampant injustice that had annihilated
their families, destroyed their prospects, and subjected many of
them to the worst forms of physical abuse, both random and
terrifying. In "The Enemy I Knew" they tell their stories, and the
world is richer for their heroic acts, and for their testimony.
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