A place for families of Jewish partisans from World War II to connect and share their stories.
Screen Shot 2021-01-04 at 3.16.30 PM Rachel (Rose) Wolfe during a Shoah Foundation interview (1995). Rachel's sister (Bela) with their stepmother (Rivka) in 1925. Rachel's first husband, Eliahu Kostashinski, in 1934. Eliahu was killed in July 1944. Rachel's sister (Razel) and niece (Sarale) in Nowogródek in 1936. They were killed in 1941. 95288 Screen Shot 2021-01-01 at 3.04.10 PM Screenshot (89) Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 10.44.49 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 10.43.06 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 10.45.07 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 11.14.11 AM Rachel and Chaim with their sons and grandchildren. August 29th, 1995). Screenshot (78) Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 10.43.42 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 10.44.12 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 10.45.49 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 11.09.55 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 11.10.08 AM Screenshot (76) Screenshot (79) Untitled2 Screenshot (81) Screenshot (87) Screenshot (88) Screenshot (90)

Rochel (Rose) Berman Wolfe


Rochel (Rose) Wolfe née Berman was born on March 15, 1918, in Novogrudok, Poland (now Belarus). There was a thriving Jewish population in Novogrudok of 6,500. Jews comprised half of the town’s population.  Rochel was the daughter of Rueven and Sarah Berman. She was eighteen months old when her mother passed away...

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Community Stories

Isidore Karten


In 1942, Isidore (Izzy) Karten and his brother Hersch, escaped from their village of Swirz to avoid being confined to the ghettos...

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Betzalel (Tzalke) Ginsburg


Tzalke Ginsburg and his brother Motke escaped from Ivie to the village of Dokodova where they joined the Iskra Otriad. Together the...

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Lilka (Ticktin) Bielski


Lilka Ticktin was born in Bialystock, Poland, on January 13, 1926. Before she was a year old, her family settled in Novogrudok....

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Michael Etkin


Michael Etkin and his twin brother, Chaim-Shepse, were born on December 25th, 1932 in Krulevshchizna, in the North of Belarus. Their mother,...

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Lea Berkowsky Friedberg


The story of Lea Berkowsky Friedberg is one of hope and strength of spirit. It is that incredible combination that gave her...

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The biographies on this site are compiled from testimonies, recollections, transcripts, memoirs, and biographies of Jewish partisans, their children and their grandchildren.