Friday, September 27, 2024

Jewish partisan Charles Bedzow Fought with the Bielski Brigade

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Charles Bedzow was born Chonon Bedzowski on September 28, 1924 in the town of Lida, located in present-day Belarus. Once the Germans occup...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Miriam Brysk – born March 10, 1935 –Child Holocaust Survivor and Partisan

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  Miriam (Mirka) Miasnik Brysk was born on March 10, 1935, in Warsaw, Poland. She was the only child of Bronka and Dr. Chaim Miasnik, and he...
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...