Showing posts with label Jewish resistance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish resistance. Show all posts
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...
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;...
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, August 31, 2017

This Month in Jewish Partisan History: Łachwa Ghetto Uprising

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By the 1930s, Łachwa, Poland (now southern Belarus) had a majority Jewish population, which, in April 1942, was confined to a ghetto so cram...
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...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Murray and Frances Berger - With Courage They Fought

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Guest writer, Ralph Berger shares insights into his parent's riveting memoir. With Courage Shall We Fight: The Memoirs and Poetry of ...
Friday, December 5, 2014

The Jewish Parachutists of Yishuv

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In late 1944, a group of Jewish volunteers from Palestine embarked on "Operation Amsterdam," a parachute mission which would take ...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Actor Liev Schreiber Narrates Documentary “The Reunion” – World Premiere to Be Held in New York at Paley Center for Media

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NEW YORK CITY – October 19, 2012 – The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF), an organization dedicated to inspiring the next gene...
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, July 21, 2011

Partisans in the Arts: Alexander Bogen (1916-2010)

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"Why would a man in grave danger create art? For an artist, the motivation to create is even more powerful than existence itself."...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

'Defiance' Director Discusses the Film's Original Opening Scene

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The first scene of the film Defiance , as originally produced, opens with an elderly Tuvia Bielski (played by Daniel Craig) driving a cab in...
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...
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...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Interview with Jewish partisan and photographer Faye Schulman

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JPEF : You must have many days of personal reflection and remembrance. How is Yom HaShoah v’HaGevurah different? Sch...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Queen Esther, our Heroine of Purim, Foreshadows Jewish Partisan Experience

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The dramatic story of Purim, filled with deception, betrayal, and murder, as well as a beautiful woman’s heroism and the implausible victor...