Tuesday, August 23, 2011

People Who Resisted – Dith Pran: photojournalist, refugee and survivor of the Cambodian Genocide

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Dith Pran: Survivor, Advocate, Photojournalist In the 1970s, Dith Pran was witnessing his country’s violent dissolution. Cambodia lapsed int...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

This Month in Jewish Partisan History: Partisan Attack on Dereczyn, Poland (Belarus), August 1942

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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....
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Larry King, Liev Schreiber and Edward Zwick Join Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation to Honor All Surviving Jewish Partisans with Launch of New PSA

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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Hollywood and the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation have joined forces to launch...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Jewish Partisans: Tools for Survival and Resistance - The Night

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The day-to-day lives of the Jewish partisans were extraordinarily difficult. Jewish partisan units had little arms and ammunition to fight w...
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...