After over sixty thousand Lithuanian Jews were decimated by the Nazis in World War II, the remaining survivors began fighting back. Gradually united through skirmishes in the ghettos of Vilna, scattered partisans formed a commando unit which took to the forests to battle German forces through sabotage and mayhem. Dozens of survivors relate startling tales of bravery and audacity chronicling one of the earliest instances of organized Jewish resistance to the horrors of the Holocaust.