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Shalom Yoran, born Selim Sznycer, was fourteen years old when the Germans occupied Poland in 1939, and he and his family spent the next three years on the run, trying to escape the Nazi mobile killing units. The Defiant is Shalom Yoran's story, a detailed first-person account of his experiences from 1939 to 1945. In the dense forests and vast swamplands, he and his brother banded together with other Jews in Eastern Poland to fight back against the Nazis. They used guns and explosives, and cunning and ingenuity. They joined non-Jewish partisans, and waged behind-the-lines guerrilla warfare against the Germans. They ambushed convoys, attacked garrisons, derailed trains, all the while hardscrabbling for each day's survival.
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Jose Ramirez
reviewed The defiant on September 18, 2011
The defiant
This is the war memoir of a Polish Jew who was 14 at the time the Nazis invaded Poland. His story begins at that point and then describes 3 years of his family's flight to escape the clutches of the occupiers. The mobile death squads finally catch up to his family one fateful night in a small town in northeastern Poland. Both Yoran's parents are killed, along with over 1,000 other Jews. Yoran and his brother escape. The last words from their mother was that they needed to survive to bear witness and to also avenge the family. Yoran and his brother, Musi do just that. They escape to the forest and eventually join various partisan fighting groups, suffering hunger, cold and fatigue while participating in guerilla warfare against the Nazis. He, along with other Jewish partisans, were sometimes the object of rabid anti-semitism from their own comrades in arms as well.
The last part of the story documents Yoran's journey after the German surrender through Europe to Palestine and the nascent Israeli state.
Yoran says in the book's foreword how he wished that more Jews had resisted the Nazis. He felt that certainly more people would have survived. I think, though, that this man had an uncommon fierceness and will to survive--some of his exploits are truly amazing (and it's embarrassing when I compare him to my soft, earnest 17 year old self).
Because of the matter of fact nature of the retelling there is an honest, un-embellished flavor to the narrative. This is a refreshing change to many written 'war stories.'
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