Showing posts with label Belarus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belarus. Show all posts
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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Monday, August 18, 2025

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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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...
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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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....