Tzalke Ginsburg and his brother Motke escaped from Ivie to the village of Dokodova where they joined the Iskra Otriad. Together the brothers attended a course in demolition and bomb composition and became the most accomplished diversionary partisans in the group. During the war, Tzalke was responsible for blowing...
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Betkhe Stul Solc was born in the village of Byenyakoni, Lithuania, in present-day Belarus. She lived with her parents, Yankel Zissel and...
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Leib Solc was born in Vilna, Lithuania. His mother was a widow, and Leib was one of eleven children. At a young...
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Boris Greineman was born in Dizsna, located on the Dvina River, in the Vitebsk region, part of Greater Poland at the time....
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This report is based on a chapter of Betty Brodsky Cohen’s upcoming book “The Tunnel People” which tells the personal stories of...
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Cesia Pomeranc was born on March 15, 1926, in the village of Wyryki near the river town of Wlodova, Poland to Bella...
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Eliahu Ostashinski was born near Novogrudok, Poland, now Belarus, where he worked as a blacksmith. Before the war, Eliahu served in the...
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Approximately 30,000 Jews fought back during the Holocaust as Jewish partisans. They fought in organized, armed resistance groups throughout Europe, saving thousands and striking back at their oppressors in countless ways.
