Saturday, March 14, 2026

"Resist, resist, to our last breath!" - Abba Kovner (z''l) and Vitka Kempner (z''l) galvanized resistance in the Vilnius Ghetto

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        In honor of their shared March 14th birthdays, JPEF highlights Abba Kovner and Vitka Kempner, partisans from the Vilnius Ghetto who...
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Sunday, March 1, 2026

Purim and the Partisans: A Jewish Tale of Defiance

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The celebration of Purim is the victory of the oppressed rising over an oppressor. Countless stories of the Jewish partisans during the Holo...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Celebrating Eta Wrobel, born on December 28, 1918

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"I was the girl who played soccer with the boys. I was the girl who rode a bicycle on the street in shorts, which no other Jewish girls...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Abe Asner's Military Training Helped Him Save Lives

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"Grodno still was a ghetto, and lots of people went back to the ghetto like Saul, his father, his mother. And I said, “Me and my brothe...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Don Felson (z''l) Dynamited Railroads to Disrupt German Conveys Carrying Supplies

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Don Felson was born October 12, 1925 in Glubokie, Poland. A small town about a hundred miles northeast of Vilna, the town sits on a low plai...
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Friday, October 3, 2025

Sukkot, the Holocaust, and Spiritual Resistance

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As Sukkot 1941 approached, the Jews of the Lodz Ghetto were in tremendous peril. Food was running scarce, and Jews were desperate to gather ...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Featured Jewish Partisan - Marisa Diena, born on September 29th

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"They didn’t know that I was Jewish. It didn’t cross my mind because there, like I said, everyone thought that I was Mara... But there ...
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