Monday, July 3, 2023

Celebrating Joe Kubryk's 97th Birthday - July 1st

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"We had a very difficult time in the partisans among our own soldiers. What happened is we had Ukrainians, we had Poles, we had Polish...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Shalom Yoran - The Defiant [Born June 29, 1925]

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Shalom Yoran was born Selim Sznycer in 1925 in Warsaw, Poland. When Shalom was 15 years old, his family fled east, leaving the Nazi-occupie...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Jewish Partisan Sonia Orbuch (z''l) was born on May 24, 1925

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“I didn’t even bend down my head, I wasn’t worried that I was going to get killed, If I was going to get killed I was going to get killed a...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Jewish Partisans Joe (z'') and Rose Holm

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This mini-biography tells the story of two Jewish partisans in Poland who fought in Chiel Grynspan's unit and later married one another....
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Featured Jewish Partisan - Norman Salsitz, born on May 6th

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Norman Salsitz was born May 6, 1920 in Galizia, a small town in southern Poland. Though he had seven different names in his lifetime, Norman...

Jewish Partisan Leon Bakst (z''l) was born on May 3, 1923

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Leon Bakst was one of four siblings born to a wholesale merchant in Ivie, a small Polish town 73 miles west of Minsk. Leon was 15 when the G...
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...