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When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the Jews of Lithuania were their first targets in the program known as The Final Solution. In the crowded ghetto of Vilna, many Jews found ways to fight back through involvement with one of the most renowned resistance movements of World War II. After the ghetto was liquidated, survivors of the resistance movement made their way to the forests outside Vilna, where they formed Jewish partisan units and continued to sabotage the German war effort, until eventually they participated alongside the Soviet army in the liberation of their city. UNTIL OUR LAST BREATH tells the story of the partisans of Vilna, focusing on one young couple, Leizer and Zenia Lewinson Bart, who met and married in the ghetto and became members of famed poet and activist leader Abba Kovner's unit, the Avengers. |
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A chronicle of the Jewish partisans of Vilna, focusing on the life of one young couple, Leizer and Zenia Lewinson Bart, who met and married in the ghetto, then escaped to fight with the famed partisan group "The Avengers." Written by Laurel Corona, with primary research by Michael Bart, Until Our Last Breath is published by St. Martin's Press. |
