A Jewish family, victimized by anti-Semitism in Poland and Germany, flees to Minsk, Byelorussia, and eventually to the Minsk forests when the Soviet Union is invaded by Nazi Germany during World War II. They become partisan fighters, and in an unusual collaboration with other Jews, a Polish Jewish World War I veteran, a Byelorussian Christian, and two Russian partisan leaders, they join forces to wreak havoc behind Nazi lines. The author hopes that...