Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

Martin Petrasek (z"l) was born in Chust, Slovakia in 1926. In 1938, Czechoslovakia became the first victim of Hitler’s expansionist pla...

" My biggest, what I was looking for it was the most, was not to stay alive or to die. The fear I should have, the fear from the German...

"I disliked the Germans — as I mentioned many times, I spoke German fluently, I learned it in school and so on, and I knew it fluently....

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

"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 ...

"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...

"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...