Nechama Tec, a Holocaust survivor whose book about the Bielski partisans inspired the Daniel Craig film “Defiance,” died on August 3 in New York City. She was 92.

Prior to the film adaptation of her 1993 book, Tec was best known within the academic world and the community of American Holocaust survivors. In her book and the film, Tuvia and Zus Bielski led Jewish partisans to fight the German occupiers in what is now western Belarus, rescuing Jews from extermination. The story of the Bielski brothers filled in omissions and distortions in connection with the Holocaust, she said. “Jews were not silent, were not victims going passively to their deaths; they were saving others while threatened by death themselves.”