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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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, 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...
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...