David Elazar was born on September 16, 1919, in Kosovska Mitrovica, then part of Yugoslavia. David had eight siblings, Moshe, Nissim, Yaakov, Mendel, Denisa, Regina, and Viktoria. David was the middle child among them. His father, Yisrael, worked as a merchant trader, and his mother, Rachel (Rivka), was the...
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Velvel Yanson was born on May 30, 1920, and grew up in Lubcz (Lubscha), Belarus. He was the son of David Yanson...
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Samuel Boymel was born on May 5, 1923, in the Volhynia province of Turisk, Ukraine. He lived with his mother, Rochel, and...
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Yankel Glincman (Jack Glinzman), was born in the town of Wlodawa, Poland after Pesach in 1928, to Leibush and Simma. He had...
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Boris Jochai was born in early 1922 in the small village of Swencian, Poland. He lived with his parents, Chaim and Chasia,...
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Laszlo Mittelman was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1919. His parents were relatively poor, but they managed to put food on the...
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Aron Bielski was born in 1927 on a farm in Stankiewicze, Poland, a rural area outside of Novogrudok. He was the youngest...
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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.
