Friday, March 14, 2025

"Resist, resist, to our last breath!" - Abba Kovner (z''l) and Vitka Kempner (z''l) galvanized resistance in the Vilnius Ghetto

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        In honor of their shared March 14th birthdays, JPEF highlights Abba Kovner and Vitka Kempner, partisans from the Vilnius Ghetto who...
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Featured Jewish Partisan – Eugenio Gentili-Tedeschi, born March 14th, 1916

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Eugenio Gentili-Tedeschi was born in Italy in 1916. In the aftermath of the Great War, his hometown of Turin became a hotbed of social unres...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Purim and the Partisans: A Jewish Tale of Defiance

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The celebration of Purim is the victory of the oppressed rising over an oppressor. Countless stories of the Jewish partisans during the Holo...
Friday, March 7, 2025

Featured Jewish Partisan - Sima Simieticka, Born In 1923

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The eldest of two daughters, Sima Simieticka was born on March 8, 1923 to a family of tailors in Warsaw. Her father left the family for Russ...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Bring Jewish Women in the Partisans to Women's History Month with JPEF's Resources

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March 2024 marks the 44th Women's History Month.   JPEF's website has an extensive library of easily accessible resources and lesso...
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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