Showing posts with label VItka Kempner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VItka Kempner. Show all posts
Saturday, March 14, 2026

"Resist, resist, to our last breath!" - Abba Kovner (z''l) and Vitka Kempner (z''l) galvanized resistance in the Vilnius Ghetto

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        In honor of their shared March 14th birthdays, JPEF highlights Abba Kovner and Vitka Kempner, partisans from the Vilnius Ghetto who...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Hirsh Glik, Poet/Songwriter - Hymm of the Jewish Partisans

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In the summer of 1944, Hirsh Glik disappeared from the ghetto in Goldfilz, Estonia, and was presumed dead. He was only twenty-two but had de...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Remembering Jewish Partisan Vitka Kempner Kovner (z''l)

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Born in the town of Kadish on the Polish-German border in 1922, Vitka Kempner Kovner escaped to Vilna after Germany invaded Poland in 1939....
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Women's History Month Resources

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Schulman, Faye, Sarah Silberstein Swartz A Partisan’s Memoir: Woman of the Holocaust Second Story Press, 1995. Essie Shor and Andrea Zakin ...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Scholastic Publishes Partisan-Inspired Elementary School Thriller

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Author Lauren Tarshis recently released an exciting edition to her I Survived series, published by Scholastic. Subtitled The Nazi Invasion,...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

2012 Youth Writing Contest Winners Announced!

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We are proud to announce the winners of the Third Annual Youth Writing Contest! From hundreds of entries from around the country - and aro...