Showing posts with label women in the partisans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women in the partisans. Show all posts
Monday, September 29, 2025

Featured Jewish Partisan - Marisa Diena, born on September 29th

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"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 ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Featured Jewish Partisan - Brenda Senders, born on August 20th

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"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...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Jewish Partisan Leah Bedzowski Johnson (z''l) - Honoring her Birthday

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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...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Share the Legacy of Jewish Partisan Sonya Oshman (z''l)

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The eldest of four children, Sonya Oshman (z''l) was born in 1922 to a family of wealthy Novogrudok merchants. Novogrudok was a Pol...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Jewish Partisans Joe (z'') and Rose Holm

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This mini-biography tells the story of two Jewish partisans in Poland who fought in Chiel Grynspan's unit and later married one another....
Friday, March 14, 2025

"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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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Remembering Rae Kushner (z''l) and her Escape from the Novogrudok Ghetto

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"But he knew the way how to go in the woods. We didn't know nothing. I [was with] my sister and my father and I said to him, '…...
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Thursday, January 11, 2024

Jewish Partisan hero Mira Shelub turns 102 on January 13, 2024

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"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...
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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...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Celebrating Eta Wrobel, born on December 28, 1918

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"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...
Friday, September 10, 2021

Looking Back on Jewish Partisan Gertrude Boyarski (z''l) During Women's History Month

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"I...went back to the partisans that should take me to [commander] Bulak. And I said, 'You know [...] I want to come back because e...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman turns 101 years old today!

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"P ictures of Resistance" is an international success! It’s hard to believe that this incredible woman is 101 ye...