Benjamin Bedzow (Bedzowski), was born on November 11, 1933 in the town of Lida, Poland, located in present-day Belarus. He lived with his parents, Michel and Chasia, along with three older siblings—Leah, Charles, and Sonia. His parents owned a large department store on the main street of town. Before...
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Henry Yelgin was born on March 24, 1915, in Bobruisk, Russia, and grew up in Grodno, Poland. He lived there with his...
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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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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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Sara Golcman Bedzow was born July 28, 1926, in Leopoldów, Poland, outside of Warsaw, to Feiga and Jacob Golcman. Her Orthodox family...
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Oscar, aged 12, escaped the ghetto twice and fled into the forests when his native shtetl Novogrudok in Belarus, was destroyed by...
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Alexander Zeisal “Zus” Bielski was born into the only Polish Jewish family in Stankiewicze. The small village in Eastern Poland (now Western...
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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.
