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Jewish Partisans Recount Struggle Against Nazis in New Documentary - "Four Winters"
(JTA) Andrew Lapin - The new documentary "Four Winters" recounts the story of eight former Jewish partisans: women and men from the ghettos who escaped Nazi roundups to the concentration camps, fled to the woods of Eastern Europe and carried out guerilla attacks on Nazis and their collaborators for the remainder of the war. It includes some remarkable archival images of the partisans in action, showing men and women armed with repatriated Nazi weapons. They say they don't like to think of themselves as brave - more that, to paraphrase Teddy Roosevelt, they had bravery thrust upon them, because they couldn't allow themselves to be carted away to die without a fight. Holocaust stories routinely portray Jews as defenseless victims - not as gutsy combatants capable of stabbing Nazis to death with makeshift knives so as not to waste precious bullets.