Journey into the Backwaters of the Heart: Stories of Women Who Resisted Stalin and Hitler

After World War II ended another war began in Lithuania. Soviet Security Forces dubbed this war the Invisible Front. In 1944, tens of thousands of Lithuanian men and women formed an armed resistance, seeking to liberate their country from Soviet Russian occupation. Few survived to tell their story. This book is created from interviews with women and men who fought in the armed resistance against the Soviet Union, survived exile to Siberia or Tajikistan, and Lithuanian Jewish Holocaust survivors. This book tells the story of a generation that was forced to chose between fighting back against an illegal foreign occupation or succumbing to Soviet rule. This book tells the stories of people who were overlooked by history.