A place for families of Jewish partisans from World War II to connect and share their stories.
From right to left, grandmother Bubbe Henye, his parents Chana and Chaim, Morris, and sister Mira. His other sister Sara is in foreground. Morris and his nephew Irwin Shelub in a DP camp. Morris with his son David. Morris graduating from pharmacy school. Morris in Bolinas, California. Morris and Gina in Haifa. Morris with his siblings, Mira (center) and Sara (left).

Morris Rosnow


Morris Rosnow was born to Chaim Michel Rosnow and Chana Rashka Rosnow on January 7, 1927, in the town of Zhetl, Poland, today Diatlovo, Belarus. Morris, his two sisters, Mira Shelub and Sara Rosnow, and his father survived the war in the nearby woods with the help of the...

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Community Stories

Luba Wrobel Goldberg


Luba Wrobel Goldberg was born on May 6, 1923, and raised in the shtetl of Ciechanowiec, Poland. She attended the Zionist Tarbut...

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Shlomo Ryback


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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Harry Burger


Harry Burger was born on May 10th, 1924 in Vienna, Austria. The Burger family was affluent and lived a comfortable life until...

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Boris Kot


Boris Kot was born on May 8, 1925, in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. He lived with his parents Solomon Isaac Kotas (Mr. Kot)...

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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.