Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

As Sukkot 1941 approached, the Jews of the Lodz Ghetto were in tremendous peril. Food was running scarce, and Jews were desperate to gather ...

"You know, you were not fussy where you sleep or where you lay down, and sometimes they ask me how did you get food. You know, you go i...

"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...

Over 80 years ago, on the eve of Leah Bedzowski Johnson's 18th birthday, the Nazis invaded her hometown of Lida, located in the eastern...

Ruth Szabo Brand was born in 1928 near Sighet in Northern Transylvania (Hungary). Though she lost her father at the age of three, her matern...

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

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

Guest writer, Ralph Berger shares insights into his parent's riveting memoir. With Courage Shall We Fight: The Memoirs and Poetry of ...

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

"Why would a man in grave danger create art? For an artist, the motivation to create is even more powerful than existence itself."...