Mark Zeisler

GI JEWS tells the story of the 550,000 Jewish Americans who fought in World War II. In their own words veterans bring their war experiences to life: how they fought for their nation, struggled with anti-Semitism, and emerged transformed.

It is widely believed that during the Holocaust, Jews went to their deaths “like sheep to the slaughter.” Resistance: They Fought Back provides a corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity. There were uprisings in ghettos, rebellions in death camps and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests. Everywhere in Eastern Europe, Jews waged campaigns of non-violent resistance against the Nazis.

Uma crônica familiar lírica e introspectiva, narrada por um filho único, que mapeia a trajetória de sua clássica família americana, desde seus momentos de glória até sua decadência, abrangendo mais de vinte anos de lembranças.