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The image of author Sara Ginaite-Rubinson at the start of her memoir is iconic in terms of the Jewish Resistance movement during WWII, and is featured prominently in the Holocaust Museum. First published in Lithuania in 1999, this book received very wide critical acclaim and is now considered one of the seminal works on Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust period. It is co-published with the Holocaust Centre of Toronto, UJA Federation

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Resistance and Survival is significant because it faithfully recounts the bitter fate of the Jews in the Kaunas ghetto and the fate of the Jewish resistance fighters... We find a convincing answer to the many questions that are still painful and debatable... --Professor Elvyra Uzkurelyte-Baltiniene, Gaires Vilnius 1999

""""Resistance and Survival"" is significant because it faithfully recounts the bitter fate of the Jews in the Kaunas ghetto and the fate of the Jewish resistance fighters... We find a convincing answer to the many questions that are still painful and debatable..."" --Professor Elvyra Uzkurelyte-Baltiniene, Gaires Vilnius 1999

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Sara Ginaite-Rubinson remained in Lithuania after the War, graduated from Vilnius and St Petersburg universities, earned her PhD and became a Professor of economics at the University of Vilnius. In 1983 she emigrated to Canada and taught social and political science at York University in Toronto. Her numerous articles have been published in English, German, Russian, Yiddish and, of course, Lithuanian.

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