ESSENTIAL REFERENCE BOOK NOW AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH! Road to Victory: Jewish Soldiers of the 16th Lithuanian Division 1942-1945. Tr. from Hebrew. Ed. and exp. by Dorothy Leivers. NJ: Avotaynu, 2009. p. 376 ISBN
Road to Victory, the English-language translation of the Yiddish (Der Veg Zum Nizakhon), then Hebrew (HaDerech El HaNitzachon) book, is mostly first-person accounts of 120 Jewish soldiers who fought in the Second World War within the ranks of the Red Army's 16th Lithuanian Division. They represent the large corps of 4,500 Jewish fighters who took up arms in order to destroy the German enemy as well as to liberate the remnants of the Jews in Lithuania - the survivors of the Shoah. The book is edited by Dorothy Leivers. This is readable history, rich in details both for historians and genealogists. Order Book: http://www.avotaynu.com/books/RoadToVictory.htm Telephone Orders: call 1-800-AVOTAYNU (286-8296) Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
