Tuesday, January 27, 2015

2015 International Holocaust Remembrance Day - 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

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This year's International Holocaust Remembrance Day also happens to be the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau ...
Friday, December 5, 2014

The Jewish Parachutists of Yishuv

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In late 1944, a group of Jewish volunteers from Palestine embarked on "Operation Amsterdam," a parachute mission which would take ...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Featured Jewish Partisan - Zvi Shefet

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“I managed to [avoid] those that would denounce me,” Zvi Shefet recalled of his early days during the German occupation of his hometown of S...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Featured Jewish Partisan - Mordechai "Motele" Shlayan

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The night progressed as any other evening would have for twelve-year-old Motele, who had just finished his nightly violin performance in the...
Friday, July 18, 2014

The Bialystok Ghetto Uprising

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In the grim history of the Bialystok ghetto, an act of resistance that occurred right before its eventual destruction by the Germans in Augu...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

JPEF Partners With Britannica Encyclopedia

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The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation is pleased to announce its partnership with Encyclopedia Britannica for The Holocaust Project. ...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Italian Jewish Resistance During World War II

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“[M]y way of life and the reason for my life for many months have only been an effort to leap into humanity, to share its existence, hard or...