Blessed Is the Match: The Story of Jewish Resistance
Marie Syrkin
1947
Why do I begin with the parachutists? Were I to trace the story of Jewish resistance and rescue chronologically, I would have to use a different order. I would have to begin with the gradual development of an underground movement in the ghettos and concentration camps of Europe. Then I would describe the attempts at rescue directed from the neutral…
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