Showing posts with label Bielski partisans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bielski partisans. Show all posts
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Share the Legacy of Jewish Partisan Sonya Oshman (z''l)

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The eldest of four children, Sonya Oshman (z''l) was born in 1922 to a family of wealthy Novogrudok merchants. Novogrudok was a Pol...
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Friday, February 23, 2024

Remembering Rae Kushner (z''l) and her Escape from the Novogrudok Ghetto

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"But he knew the way how to go in the woods. We didn't know nothing. I [was with] my sister and my father and I said to him, '…...
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Jewish Partisan Leon Bakst (z''l) was born on May 3, 1923

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Leon Bakst was one of four siblings born to a wholesale merchant in Ivie, a small Polish town 73 miles west of Minsk. Leon was 15 when the G...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Art and Jewish Women in the Partisans: The Incredible Story of Paula Burger

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Born in 1934, Paula Burger lived with her parents and younger brother Isaac in a small town about one mile from the larger Novogrodek shtetl...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Partisan Photos By 'Defiance' Director Edward Zwick

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In November of 2008, Defiance director Edward Zwick took these photographs of surviving Bielski partisans at the screening of Defiance at ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Resource Suggestions for 2012 Days of Remembrance

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The theme for this year’s International Holocaust Days of Remembrance (April 15-22) is “Choosing to Act: Stories of Rescue” . The Jewish res...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Partisan Legacy Honored in New York City

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Fifty-five surviving partisans, many traveling from as far away as California, Colorado and Tennessee, attended the Jewish Partisan Educatio...
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Friday, November 4, 2011

Daniel Craig as older Tuvia Bieski on hack license prop for Defiance

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Daniel Craig as an older Tuvia Bielski If you’ve seen the movie Defiance , you’ll recognize Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski, but you won’t rec...
Friday, February 18, 2011

JPEF Short Films, Great Resources in Classrooms

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Partisan women have always been an incredible aspect of Jewish partisan history. Besides fighting the Germans, women had to put up with sexi...