Thursday, February 27, 2025

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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Sunday, February 23, 2025

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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Thursday, February 20, 2025

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...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Spiritual Resistance on Yom Kippur - Ruth Szabo Brand (1928 - 2011)

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Ruth Szabo Brand was born in 1928 near Sighet in Northern Transylvania (Hungary). Though she lost her father at the age of three, her matern...
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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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