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...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Teaching About the Jewish Partisans Anytime and Anywhere with On-line Classes

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Since the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF) launched its free E-Learning Platform in 2011, educators all over the world have tak...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Jewish Partisans Charles Bedzow and Leah Johnson Escaped the Lida Ghetto

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With the help of Tuvia Bielski, siblings Charles Bedzow and Leah Johnson escaped the Lida ghetto before its residents were rounded up, shot ...
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 ...