A valuable, remarkably full memoir by the last commander of the
Jewish Fighting Organization, who helped lead the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising, the Polish Uprising, and subsequent efforts to rescue
Jews during and after WW II. Known to anyone familiar with
Holocaust or resistance literature by his underground name of
"Antek," Zuckerman (1915-81) displays an amazing memory for wartime
names, dates, places, and political nuances. (The title will ring
ironically true for readers who don't share his obsession with
political and organizational minutiae.) The narrative - ably edited
and translated by Judaica-scholar Harshav - is based on transcripts
of tape recordings, in Hebrew, that Zuckerman agreed to make only
after the Yom Kippur War of 1973. While there's actually far from a
surplus of poignant memories here, there are enough to carry the
motivated reader - including recollections of the footsteps of
Zuckerman's father as he walked away for the last time, of the
despair of feeling like "a rear guard in the parade of death," and
of the subsequent exhilaration at killing Germans and surviving to
strike again. The most compelling aspects of the endless political
intrigue involve fluctuating relationships with right- and
left-wing Polish militias, clashes with Jewish ghetto police, and
ambivalence toward the Zionist underground's leadership in
Palestine. One steady but passionless relationship concerns fellow
Jewish Fighting Organization leader Zivia Lubetkin, whom Zuckerman
ended up marrying. The meticulously detailed record of a selfless,
highly organized man who rose to challenge our century's ultimate
chaos and depravity. (Kirkus Reviews)
In 1943, against hopeless odds, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose
up to defy the Nazi horror machine that had set out to exterminate
them. One of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which
led the uprisings, was Yitzhak Zuckerman, known by his underground
pseudonym, Antek. Decades later, living in Israel, Antek dictated
host memoirs. The Hebrew publication of "Those Seven Years:
1939-1946" was a major event in the historiography of the
Holocaust, and now Antek's memoirs are available in Engish. Unlike
Holocaust books that focus on the annihilation of European Jews,
Antek's account is of the daily struggle to maintain human dignity
under the most dreadful conditions. His passionate, involved
testimony, which combines detail, authenticity and gripping
immediacy, has unique historical importance. The memoirs situate
the ghetto and the resistance in the social and political context
that preceded them, when prewar Zionist and Socialist youth
movements were gradually forged into what became the first
significant armed resistance against the Nazis in all of occupied
Europe. Antek also describes the activities of the resistance after
the destruction of the ghetto, when 20,000
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