Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 75th Anniversary Begins Erev Pesach

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75 years ago this week, German soldiers entered the Warsaw ghetto, intending to deport its remaining Jewish population to Treblinka, a nearb...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Art and Jewish Women in the Partisans: The Incredible Story of Paula Burger

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Born in 1934, Paula Burger lived with her parents and younger brother Isaac in a small town about one mile from the larger Novogrodek shtetl...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Remembering Jewish Partisan Vitka Kempner Kovner (z''l)

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Born in the town of Kadish on the Polish-German border in 1922, Vitka Kempner Kovner escaped to Vilna after Germany invaded Poland in 1939....
Thursday, October 19, 2017

JEWISH PARTISAN LEGACY HONORED AT NYC GALA

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Jewish partisans who rose up against the Nazis through physical and spiritual defiance will come together for the largest gathering o...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

This Month in Jewish Partisan History: Łachwa Ghetto Uprising

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By the 1930s, Łachwa, Poland (now southern Belarus) had a majority Jewish population, which, in April 1942, was confined to a ghetto so cram...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Featured Jewish Partisan: Chaya Porus Palevsky

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Obeying a last-minute command from a friend, Chaya jumped off a train filled with residents of the Swieciany ghetto, bound for the town of K...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Joseph Greenblatt - Jewish partisan born 101 Years Ago Today

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"I lost my family -- lost my father, my mother, my brother, lost all the close relatives, and that was about 70 members of my closest f...