Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Jewish Partisan Walter Marx (z''l) – born February 27, 1926 – Lost His Family Home on Kristallnacht

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"I believe that the Italian partisans were very effective in pinning down a certain amount of German troops...And of course, the Italia...
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Friday, February 23, 2024

Remembering Rae Kushner (z''l) and her Escape from the Novogrudok Ghetto

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"But he knew the way how to go in the woods. We didn't know nothing. I [was with] my sister and my father and I said to him, '…...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Sam Lato (z''l), born on February 24, Became a Partisan at 17

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"Whenever you went on assignment, the most dangerous part is coming back. Going there, they don’t know you're there, so you sneak i...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Jewish Partisan hero Mira Shelub turns 102 on January 13, 2024

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"Somehow, you know, when we came out from them, from the ghetto, I cannot tell you how good it felt to breathe the fresh air, to know t...
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Jewish Partisan Lilka (Ticktin) Bielski (z''l) – born January 13, 1926

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Lilka Ticktin was born in Bialystock, Poland, on January 13, 1926. Before she was a year old, her family settled in Novogrudok. Her mother, ...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Abe Asner's Military Training Helped Him Save Lives

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"Grodno still was a ghetto, and lots of people went back to the ghetto like Saul, his father, his mother. And I said, “Me and my brothe...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

Don Felson (z''l) Dynamited Railroads to Disrupt German Conveys Carrying Supplies

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Don Felson was born October 12, 1925 in Glubokie, Poland. A small town about a hundred miles northeast of Vilna, the town sits on a low plai...
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