Showing posts with label Holocaust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holocaust. 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...
Monday, July 1, 2024

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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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...
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...
Monday, January 27, 2020

2020 International Holocaust Remembrance Day - 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

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This year's International Holocaust Remembrance Day also happens to be the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau ...
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...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Joseph Greenblatt - Jewish partisan born 101 Years Ago Today

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"I lost my family -- lost my father, my mother, my brother, lost all the close relatives, and that was about 70 members of my closest f...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

This Month in Jewish Partisan History: Nesvizh Ghetto Resistance, July 1942

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The Jews in Nesvizh organized one of the first Jewish uprisings during World War II in order to resist complete liquidation of their communi...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Announcing the Winners of Our Second Annual Youth Writing Contest

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Winning Essays are posted below - please scroll down and click on links. From 500+ entries representing 20 states across the country as we...
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Eugenio Gentili-Tedeschi - Buon Compleanno (Happy Birthday)!

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Today we mark the birthday of Eugenio Gentili-Tedeschi (z"l). Eugenio was born in Italy in 1916. While Eugenio came of age under Mussol...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Live Webcast of the International Day of Commemoration to honor the victims of the Holocaust

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Watch a live webcast as the United Nations honors the courage of women during the Holocaust, which continues to inspire and empower women t...