Förresten, Yitzak Arad sökte ju in som frivillig Sovjet-partisan senare. han berättar att judar som sökte sig till sovjeternas partisaner var tvungna att köpa sina egna vapen, samt vara med som lärlingar en längre tid för att möjligen bli accepterade och antagna.
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There were many problems for a Jew to be with the Soviet partisans. First of all, there were anti-Semitic feelings. Then, a Jew would only be accepted in the ranks of the Soviet partisans if he had his own arms. (Any non-Jew, whether a local peasant or one who had escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp, would be accepted without arms.) Also, there was the image of the Jew as a bad fighter or a coward. So you fought to prove yourself, to say, "Anything you can do I can do--if not better at least as well." So in the beginning we had to struggle for our places. But after a few months I was able to prove myself--my courage--and was allowed to take part in mining many trains, in ambushes and other activities. But still it wasn't easy. There was some talk about making specifically Jewish units, but we could not do it because the official attitude of the Soviet partisan movement was that there was no place for Jewish units.
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