Writing Antifascist Resistance, 1939-44

Writing Antifascist Resistance examines the final letters of five antifascist activists who faced execution during World War II, including three teenagers.

Mercedes Camino is Professor of History at Lancaster University, UK. Her research interests include film and memory of twentieth-century conflicts. She is the author of Memories of Resistance and the Holocaust on Film (2018) and co-editor of The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century (2017).

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Last Letters as Historical Sources Chapter 1. Julia Conesa and Thirteen Red Roses in Franco's Spain (5 August 1939) Chapter 2. Guy Môquet and the Hostages of Vichy France (22 October 1941) Chapter 3. Masha Bruskina and Jewish 'Partisans' in Occupied Byelorussia (26 October 1941) Chapter 4. Mordechai Anielewicz and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (21 April - 16 May 1943) Chapter 5. Olga Bancic and The Manouchian Group (10 May 1944) Conclusion Index