Monday, May 18, 2015

People Who Resisted: Paul Rusesabagina, Rwandan Humanitarian

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Paul Rusesabagina’s story was adapted in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda , along with the events of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. His humanitarian e...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Featured Jewish Partisan - Rachel Margolis

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Rachel Margolis was born in Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania, in 1921. In 1941 Nazi Germany invaded Lithuania and Rachel was sent to live in hi...
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Monday, March 2, 2015

JPEF Celebrates Women In The Partisans

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In honor of Women's History Month, here's a great article we're reposting from the Jewish Women's Archive blog: During W...
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 ...
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...