Boris Greineman was born in Dizsna, located on the Dvina River, in the Vitebsk region, part of Greater Poland at the time. When Germany and the Soviet Union divided Poland in 1939, Dizsna became part of the area known as Belarus. Boris was born into a very scholarly family....
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Stan Felson was born Zalman Feigelson in 1923 in the small town of Glubokie, Poland. He lived with his parents, Yosef and...
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Meyer Bronicki was born on March 20, 1924, in Dworzec, Poland. He lived in the village center with his parents, Feivel and...
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Born May 22, 1922, in Novogrudok, Belarus to Aaron Isser and Chaika, Irving (Itzchak) Resnik was one of five children; he had...
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Faige Merin Porter (Puchtik) was born in Horodok, Ukraine, on March 15, 1909. She lived with her parents, Nosson and Baila, along...
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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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Ida Zelwin was born Chayke Dushkin in Korelitz, Poland (now part of Belarus) in July 1915. She was the daughter of Reuben...
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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.
