A place for families of Jewish partisans from World War II to connect and share their stories.
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Rita Gurwitz Yelgin


Rita Gurwitz Yelgin was born on June 21, 1921, in Slonim, Lithuania, and grew up in Grodno, Poland. She lived with her parents, Aryeh Leyb and Esther (Samsonovitz) Gurwitz, and an older sister Bertha (Gurwitz) Wolynski, who was born in 1905. Rita had two other siblings (Rachmiel and Sarah)...

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Samuel Boymel


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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Rochel (Rose) Berman Wolfe


Rochel (Rose) Wolfe née Berman was born on March 15, 1918, in Novogrudok, Poland (now Belarus). There was a thriving Jewish population in Novogrudok of...

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Aaron Kaye


Aaron Kaye was born on December 24, 1928, in Pultusk, Poland, not far from Warsaw. He lived with his parents, Freya and...

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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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The biographies on this site are compiled from testimonies, recollections, transcripts, memoirs, and biographies of Jewish partisans, their children and their grandchildren.