when a jewish partisan in the stalin brigade , himself a veteran communist , protested when his unit turned away a group of jewish refugee women , making their deaths inevitable , he was court-martialed and shot as a jewish nationalist.xcviii temporarily separated from his unit in may 1942 after a failed ambush against a german convoy on the road just west of dolhinov , littman mor , member of the peoples revenge partisan brigade , thought , a partisan detached from his regiment was in a bad situation .