Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Leon Idas, born July 11, 1925, Fought for the Liberation of Greece at 16

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"We are Jewish, and you know what happened to the Jews, I said, they round them up and we come here, we didn't care if it is Commun...
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Monday, June 30, 2025

Shalom Yoran - The Defiant [Born June 29, 1925]

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Shalom Yoran was born Selim Sznycer in 1925 in Warsaw, Poland. When Shalom was 15 years old, his family fled east, leaving the Nazi-occupie...
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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Share the Legacy of Jewish Partisan Sonya Oshman (z''l)

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The eldest of four children, Sonya Oshman (z''l) was born in 1922 to a family of wealthy Novogrudok merchants. Novogrudok was a Pol...
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Thursday, May 8, 2025

More than 15,000 People Today Owe Their Lives to Tuvia Bielski (z''l), Born May 8, 1906

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Over seventy years ago on a rainy night, Rae Kushner, her sister Lisa, along with Sonya and Aaron Oshman, escaped through a narrow tunnel fr...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Jewish Partisans Joe (z'') and Rose Holm

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This mini-biography tells the story of two Jewish partisans in Poland who fought in Chiel Grynspan's unit and later married one another....
Monday, May 5, 2025

Jewish Partisan Leon Bakst (z''l) was born on May 3, 1923

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Leon Bakst was one of four siblings born to a wholesale merchant in Ivie, a small Polish town 73 miles west of Minsk. Leon was 15 when the G...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Leon Senders (z''l), disrupted the Nazi war machine as a radio operator with the Soviet partisans after escaping the Vilnius (Vilna) Ghetto

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Leon Senders, a Jewish partisan from Vilna, disrupted the Nazi war machine as a radio operator with the Soviet partisans. Leon was born on M...