Showing posts with label Belarus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belarus. Show all posts
Friday, September 27, 2024

Jewish partisan Charles Bedzow Fought with the Bielski Brigade

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Charles Bedzow was born Chonon Bedzowski on September 28, 1924 in the town of Lida, located in present-day Belarus. Once the Germans occup...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Jewish Partisan - Bernard Druskin, born on August 18

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"The only thing we used to get [...] parachuted is dynamite, ammunition, and arms, and the rest, we had to live off the fat of th...
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Thursday, January 11, 2024

Jewish Partisan hero Mira Shelub turns 102 on January 13, 2024

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"Somehow, you know, when we came out from them, from the ghetto, I cannot tell you how good it felt to breathe the fresh air, to know t...
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Thursday, October 12, 2023

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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Sunday, May 10, 2020

Honoring the Memory of Sol Lapidus (z''l), Born May 10, 1921

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With an explosion akin to thunder, the train splintered into a thousand pieces, instantly killing the German soldiers inside. In the afterma...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Max Cukier (z"l), born on January 23, 1918

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"We had food what can eat thousand people, we were going in special my group what I was with the commander. We were going in to farmers...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Partisan Tools for Survival: The Forests and Swamps

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"And I saw the trees very big trees, heavy trees and it was a wind and it was blowing the trees back and forth. And I said here we come...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Guest Blogger – Moshe Baran: A Journey Into Memory

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Moshe Baran is a Jewish partisan from the town of Horodok, located in present-day southwestern Ukraine but belonging to Poland prior to the ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

This Month in Jewish Partisan History: Partisan Attack on Dereczyn, Poland (Belarus), August 1942

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On the night of July 24, 1942, the ghetto of Dereczyn was liquidated; between 3,000 and 4,000 Jews were murdered and placed in a mass grave....