Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

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...

"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...

"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...

"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 ...

This year we celebrate the “New Year for Trees” on January 21st. Tu B’Shevat is an agricultural holiday celebrated on the 15th of Shevat on ...

By the 1930s, Łachwa, Poland (now southern Belarus) had a majority Jewish population, which, in April 1942, was confined to a ghetto so cram...

"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...

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

Across the nation, every year, students in high schools read Elie Wiesel’s “Night.” However, few students are introduced to the history of t...

On September 21st, JPEF executive director Mitch Braff was in New York City with Liev Schreiber, recording the narration voice-overs for JPE...

Here’s a sneak peak at just some of what JPEF has planned for the coming school year in 2012-2013: New Curricula – including Tactics of R...

Over 55 Jewish partisans gathered together in New York City on November 6th and 7th to commemorate the enduring legacy they share and to be ...

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...

The day-to-day lives of the Jewish partisans were extraordinarily difficult. Jewish partisan units had little arms and ammunition to fight w...

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

The first scene of the film Defiance , as originally produced, opens with an elderly Tuvia Bielski (played by Daniel Craig) driving a cab in...

Over 500 students from 20 states, Canada and South Africa, representing public, private, Jewish and parochial schools, competed for the noto...

The first place winner of the Upper Division category (10th-12th grade) of our 2011 Youth Writing Contest was EJ Weiss, a sophomore from Ke...

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