Eugene (Zalman) Katz was born in the small village of Dzisna in eastern Poland on January 6, 1925. He lived with his parents, Leib and Manya, and four older siblings, Ephraim, Sophie, Ida, and Moishe. His father worked as a controller for a lumber company, and his mother was...
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Sam Gruber was born January 3, 1913 in Podhajce, Poland. On September 1, 1939, he was in the Polish army (rare for...
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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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Helen Terris (née Elinka Cyderowicz) was born in Lida, Poland on September 8, 1935, the only child to mother Esther Thurston Cyderowicz...
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Miriam (Mirka) Miasnik Brysk was born in Warsaw, Poland, on March 10, 1935. She was the only child of Bronka and Dr....
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Carmen Rousso (née Karmen Kakis) was born on April 17, 1923, in the northern Greek town of Drama. She also spent a...
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Lilka Ticktin was born in Bialystock, Poland, on January 13, 1926. Before she was a year old, her family settled in Novogrudok....
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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.
