Showing posts with label Featured Jewish partisan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Featured Jewish partisan. Show all posts
Monday, September 29, 2025

Featured Jewish Partisan - Marisa Diena, born on September 29th

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"They didn’t know that I was Jewish. It didn’t cross my mind because there, like I said, everyone thought that I was Mara... But there ...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Leon Idas, born July 11, 1925, Fought for the Liberation of Greece at 16

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"We are Jewish, and you know what happened to the Jews, I said, they round them up and we come here, we didn't care if it is Commun...
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Sunday, February 23, 2025

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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Thursday, February 20, 2025

Sam Lato (z''l), born on February 24, Became a Partisan at 17

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"Whenever you went on assignment, the most dangerous part is coming back. Going there, they don’t know you're there, so you sneak i...
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 19, 2023

Abe Asner's Military Training Helped Him Save Lives

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"Grodno still was a ghetto, and lots of people went back to the ghetto like Saul, his father, his mother. And I said, “Me and my brothe...
Monday, July 3, 2023

Celebrating Joe Kubryk's 97th Birthday - July 1st

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"We had a very difficult time in the partisans among our own soldiers. What happened is we had Ukrainians, we had Poles, we had Polish...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Jewish Partisan Sonia Orbuch (z''l) was born on May 24, 1925

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“I didn’t even bend down my head, I wasn’t worried that I was going to get killed, If I was going to get killed I was going to get killed a...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Romi Cohn (z"l) was born on March 10, 1929

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" My biggest, what I was looking for it was the most, was not to stay alive or to die. The fear I should have, the fear from the German...
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Featured Jewish Partisan - Bernard Musmand, born on March 3rd

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"I disliked the Germans — as I mentioned many times, I spoke German fluently, I learned it in school and so on, and I knew it fluently....
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Celebrating Eta Wrobel, born on December 28, 1918

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"I was the girl who played soccer with the boys. I was the girl who rode a bicycle on the street in shorts, which no other Jewish girls...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Remembering Jeff Gradow on his January 5th birth date

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“It's hard to describe how a human being, being a prisoner, and suddenly he gets the power to fight back, even psychologically, he knows...
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Friday, December 11, 2020

Celebrating the Life Jewish Partisan Frank Blaichman (z''l), born on December 11

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"Those who could not come with us, that could not fight, we found shelter for them by farmers, some of them, who made bunkers for them;...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Afraid to Eat, Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman Risked Her Life Observing Passover

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"Every picture has a story. This is a picture when I was accepted into the Partisans but many Jewish people escaped from ghettos, from ...
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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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Saturday, May 25, 2019

Featured Jewish Partisan - Sonia Orbuch, born on May 24th

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“I didn’t even bend down my head, I wasn’t worried that I was going to get killed, If I was going to get killed I was going to get killed a...
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....