Friday, April 21, 2023

Martin Petrasek (z"l) born on April 21, 1926

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Martin Petrasek (z"l) was born in Chust, Slovakia in 1926. In 1938, Czechoslovakia became the first victim of Hitler’s expansionist pla...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Romi Cohn (z"l) was born on March 10, 1929

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" 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...
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Featured Jewish Partisan - Bernard Musmand, born on March 3rd

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"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....
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...
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...