Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

"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...

"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...

"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...

This mini-biography tells the story of two Jewish partisans in Poland who fought in Chiel Grynspan's unit and later married one another....

"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...

"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;...

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

"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...

75 years ago this week, German soldiers entered the Warsaw ghetto, intending to deport its remaining Jewish population to Treblinka, a nearb...

"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...

The eldest of four children, Moshe Baran was born in 1920 in Horodok – a shtetl in Poland. The population of Horodok was 90% Jewish, with ap...

JPEF executive director Mitch Braff had a chance to record a short Q&A session with former Jewish partisan platoon commander Frank Blaic...

Over the years, there has been heated debate among Polish and Jewish academics over the treatment of Polish Jews by the Armia Krajowa (AK) d...

Dear readers, we need your help! We recently received an email from a Holocaust Center on the East Coast about a duo of paintings someone re...

Those who escaped from the Sobibor Extermination Camp in Poland furnished detailed-first hand accounts of their revolt. Their stories will b...

On the night of July 24, 1942, the ghetto of Dereczyn was liquidated; between 3,000 and 4,000 Jews were murdered and placed in a mass grave....