A place for families of Jewish partisans from World War II to connect and share their stories.
Screen Shot 2021-01-04 at 3.16.30 PM Rachel (Rose) Wolfe during a Shoah Foundation interview (1995). Rachel's sister (Bela) with their stepmother (Rivka) in 1925. Rachel's first husband, Eliahu Kostashinski, in 1934. Eliahu was killed in July 1944. Rachel's sister (Razel) and niece (Sarale) in Nowogródek in 1936. They were killed in 1941. 95288 Screen Shot 2021-01-01 at 3.04.10 PM Screenshot (89) Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 10.44.49 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 10.43.06 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 10.45.07 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 11.14.11 AM Rachel and Chaim with their sons and grandchildren. August 29th, 1995). Screenshot (78) Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 10.43.42 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 10.44.12 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 10.45.49 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 11.09.55 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-06 at 11.10.08 AM Screenshot (76) Screenshot (79) Untitled2 Screenshot (81) Screenshot (87) Screenshot (88) Screenshot (90)

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 6,500. Jews comprised half of the town’s population.  Rochel was the daughter of Rueven and Sarah Berman. She was eighteen months old when her mother passed away...

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Yechiel (Chil) Grynszpan


Yechiel (Chil) Grynszpan was born on July 6, 1916, in Sosnowica, Poland, to Sura Bajla and Moszko Grynszpan. He grew up with...

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Freida Szewryn Rubinoff


Freida Szewryn Rubinoff was born on December 12, 1927, in the small town of Lenin, Poland to Chaim and Elka Ziklig Szewryn....

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Sonia Lazowski Lombrowski


Sonia Lombrowski (nee Lazowski) was born on October 25, 1917, to a wealthy family in Dvoretz, Poland. She lived with her parents,...

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Harry Burger


Harry Burger was born on May 10th, 1924 in Vienna, Austria. The Burger family was affluent and lived a comfortable life until...

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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.