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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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Saturday, July 13, 2019

Simon Trakinski (z''l) - Escaped from the Vilnius (Vilna) Ghetto and fought as a Jewish partisan - Born July 13, 1925

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"Is it the same to Jews as it is to Americans to study the revolutionary war and its heroes, right? People put their chest in front of ...

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Thursday, February 15, 2018

Remembering Jewish Partisan Vitka Kempner Kovner (z''l)

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Born in the town of Kadish on the Polish-German border in 1922, Vitka Kempner Kovner escaped to Vilna after Germany invaded Poland in 1939....

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Featured Jewish Partisan - Rachel Margolis

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Rachel Margolis was born in Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania, in 1921. In 1941 Nazi Germany invaded Lithuania and Rachel was sent to live in hi...

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Friday, April 11, 2014

Scholastic Publishes Partisan-Inspired Elementary School Thriller

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Author Lauren Tarshis recently released an exciting edition to her I Survived series, published by Scholastic. Subtitled The Nazi Invasion,...

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