A place for families of Jewish partisans from World War II to connect and share their stories.
Jack Glinzman in his Computer Room JACK IN THE COMPUTER ROOM 1 Survivors from Wlodawa in DP Camp Survivors from Wlodawa in front of the Shul Home Jack after the war at the DP Camp Jack and Regina Glinzman Wlodawa's Surviving Jews in Front of the Bemah at the Shul School Picture Wlodawa Cemetary

Jack (Yankel) Glinzman (Glincman)


Yankel Glincman (Jack Glinzman), was born in the town of Wlodawa, Poland after Pesach in 1928, to Leibush and Simma. He had two brothers, Beryl and Yonah, and three sisters, Pessel, Libba, and Basha. His family owned a transport business, and using horses and wagons, traveled to cities around...

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Community Stories

Betzalel (Tzalke) Ginsburg


Tzalke Ginsburg and his brother Motke escaped from Ivie to the village of Dokodova where they joined the Iskra Otriad. Together the...

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Hertzel Nohomovski


Hertzel Nohomovski was born in Novogrudok, Poland on April 28, 1920 but lived most of his life in the nearby town of...

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Martin Petrasek


Martin Petrasek was born in Chust, Slovakia in 1926. In 1938, Czechoslovakia became the first victim of Germany’s expansionist plans when the...

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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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Sonia Orbuch


In 1941, the small Polish town of Luboml fell under German occupation following Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union. Among the 8,000...

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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.