Monday, June 30, 2025

Shalom Yoran - The Defiant [Born June 29, 1925]

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Shalom Yoran was born Selim Sznycer in 1925 in Warsaw, Poland. When Shalom was 15 years old, his family fled east, leaving the Nazi-occupie...
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Thursday, May 8, 2025

More than 15,000 People Today Owe Their Lives to Tuvia Bielski (z''l), Born May 8, 1906

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Over seventy years ago on a rainy night, Rae Kushner, her sister Lisa, along with Sonya and Aaron Oshman, escaped through a narrow tunnel fr...
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Friday, March 21, 2025

Leon Senders (z''l), disrupted the Nazi war machine as a radio operator with the Soviet partisans after escaping the Vilnius (Vilna) Ghetto

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Leon Senders, a Jewish partisan from Vilna, disrupted the Nazi war machine as a radio operator with the Soviet partisans. Leon was born on M...
Friday, March 14, 2025

"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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Featured Jewish Partisan – Eugenio Gentili-Tedeschi, born March 14th, 1916

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Eugenio Gentili-Tedeschi was born in Italy in 1916. In the aftermath of the Great War, his hometown of Turin became a hotbed of social unres...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

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...
Friday, March 7, 2025

Featured Jewish Partisan - Sima Simieticka, Born In 1923

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The eldest of two daughters, Sima Simieticka was born on March 8, 1923 to a family of tailors in Warsaw. Her father left the family for Russ...