Gertrude ‘Gertie’ Boyarski, born in 1922, was a teenager with a family and a home until the Germans invaded her town of Derechin, Poland. The Nazis forced the town’s Jews into a ghetto. But Gertie’s father — a butcher and a housepainter — was regarded by the Germans as...
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Moshe Berkowitz was born in 1898 in the small Jewish town of Woronowa, Poland, now in modern-day Belarus. Residents of Woronowa shared...
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Zdenka Novak, born Zdenka Steiner in Zagreb, Croatia in 1919, was the sole survivor of her family. She lived a protected life...
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Judith was born into a large and well-to-do family in Lida, Poland. She lost most of her family in the slaughter on...
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Leib Solc was born in Vilna, Lithuania. His mother was a widow, and Leib was one of eleven children. At a young...
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Sara Golcman Bedzow was born July 28, 1926, in Leopoldów, Poland, outside of Warsaw, to Feiga and Jacob Golcman. Her Orthodox family...
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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...
Read MoreA place for families of Jewish partisans from World War II to connect and share their stories.
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.
