A place for families of Jewish partisans from World War II to connect and share their stories.
1945   Philip Lazowski Grandfathers House in Bielica Parents   Chaya Gitel Halpern Lazowski  Josef Lazowski 1929 1955   Philip  Ruths Wedding Dec 11 1955 1956   Beth Shalom Hebrew School 1970   Rabbi 2000   with Abe Goldstein 2013   Rabbi  Ruth Israel 1970 - Rabbi 2000 - Rabbi 2005 - Lazowski Family Willie Moll, Ted Winestone and Philip Lazowski

Philip Lazowski (Feivel Lazowski)


Philip Lazowski was born on June 13, 1930 in Bielica, Poland. It was a fishing, hunting and agricultural community. The town trading posts had become a center for Jewish merchants, and in 1939 there were 600 Jews out of a total population of 1800. His father, Joseph, was a...

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Sara Rosnow


A Young Woman in the Forest: A Jewish Partisan Story of Survival Born on the second Seder of Passover 1925, Sara Rosnow...

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David Figman


David Figman was born on December 24, 1926, in Warsaw, Poland. He lived with his parents, Shmuel Wolff and Masha, along with...

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Avigdor Klimtka (Cline)


Avigdor Klimtka, a Jewish partisan who lived a brief but itinerant life, (from “Tag Eins ” as he used to say)...

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David Elazar


David Elazar was born on September 16, 1919, in Kosovska Mitrovica, then part of Yugoslavia. David had eight siblings, Moshe, Nissim, Yaakov,...

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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.