Showing posts with label partisan survival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label partisan survival. Show all posts
Friday, January 11, 2019

Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish Partisan Experience and the Rebirth of Contemporary Jewish Life

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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 ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Partisan Tools for Survival: The Forests and Swamps

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"And I saw the trees very big trees, heavy trees and it was a wind and it was blowing the trees back and forth. And I said here we come...
Sunday, August 4, 2013

Partisan Tools for Survival: Hidden Identities

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For partisan groups, fighting the powerful and well-equipped German army in open combat was typically not an option. Partisans spent much of...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Partisan Tools for Survival: the Instrument of Illusion

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Many who know Jewish partisan stories also know that victory was not only about physical resistance—mining railroad tracks or killing German...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Partisan Tools for Survival: Friendly Locals

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The world of a partisan, and especially a Jewish partisan, was a treacherous, restless, stressful world. They braved the most unendurable co...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Featured Jewish Partisan: Eugenio Gentili-Tedeschi (z''l)

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Soldier's Sketches Only Known Drawings of Jewish Partisan Experience Eugenio Gentili-Tedeschi was a young man in Turin, Italy during the...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Happy Birthday, Resistance Fighter, Mira Shelub

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  Mira after the war, 1947. Mira on the set of a JPEF interview holding a photo of her husband, Norman, 2002. Last week, Jewish parti...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Two JPEF Jewish Partisan Birthdays in December

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Blaichman in Polish partisan uniform, 1945 This month, Jewish partisan Frank Blaichman celebrated his 88th birthday. Frank was only 1...