During the event, we:
- Remembered Those Lost During A Special Ceremony.
- Celebrated the Perseverance and Resilience of the Jewish Partisans.
- Learned How They Took Care of One Another During Challenging Times.
- Heard the First Hand Real Life Experience of A Teenage Jewish Partisan.
Keynote address by Dr. Michael Berenbaum, renown Holocaust Scholar.
Q&A Session with Jewish Partisan, Allen Small, who fought the Nazis and their collaborators as a teenager.
Email questions for Allen Small to events@jewishpartisans.org, or tweet your questions to @jpeftweets.
Wednesday, April 22nd
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM – PST
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM – CST
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM – EST
(Via Zoom)
To maintain the security of our virtual commemoration, we will email your zoom link 2 hours in advance of the program.
Hymn of the Partisans (Kog Nit Mol Zeyn) Sing A Long, led by Cantor Shira Ginsburg.
About Allen Small
Allen Small |
As the German Army liquidated the town of Ivie, Poland, during the summer of 1941, 14-year-old Allen Small's mother told him to hide in the attic. Escaping execution, he went on the run and soon became a partisan fighter with the Stalinskaya Brigade.
When the war ended, Allen was drafted into the Soviet army, but in 1946, aided by a Zionist organization, he snuck into the American Zone. At a DP camp in Munich, he ran into a childhood friend, Leon Bakst, who had also survived the war as a partisan.
The reunion of these partisans, 65 years later, is the subject of in JPEF's film, "The Reunion," narrated by Liev Schreiber: http://www.jewishpartisans.org/films.
On January 15, 2020, Allen celebrated his 92nd birthday.
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