Friday, October 7, 2022

Sukkot, the Holocaust, and Spiritual Resistance

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As Sukkot 1941 approached, the Jews of the Lodz Ghetto were in tremendous peril. Food was running scarce, and Jews were desperate to gather ...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Featured Jewish Partisan - Marisa Diena, born on September 29th

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"They didn’t know that I was Jewish. It didn’t cross my mind because there, like I said, everyone thought that I was Mara... But there ...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Celebrating Eta Wrobel, born on December 28, 1918

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"I was the girl who played soccer with the boys. I was the girl who rode a bicycle on the street in shorts, which no other Jewish girls...
Friday, September 10, 2021

Looking Back on Jewish Partisan Gertrude Boyarski (z''l) During Women's History Month

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"I...went back to the partisans that should take me to [commander] Bulak. And I said, 'You know [...] I want to come back because e...
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Featured Jewish Partisan - Nina Grutz Morecki (z"l)

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Nina Grutz Morecki (z"l) was 18 years old when the Nazis invaded Poland. Nina endured the loss of her mother, father, sister and brothe...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

"The Partisan, 1942" — a poem by Laura Morowitz in memory of Faye Schulman

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Faye Schulman My heart lies in the woods Red heart on soft white snow Songs written in blood, not lead written in red Sheyne mydelach sinki...
Monday, April 19, 2021

The Polish Home Army and the Jews by Professor Joshua Zimmerman

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The Polish Underground’s military wing – the Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) - was the largest resistance movement in German-occupied Poland...