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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Ruth Kaplow (Raschka Kaplowitz) was born in 1924, in the town of Krivitz, Belarus. Her mother, Genya, passed away in 1928 and...
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Oscar, aged 12, escaped the ghetto twice and fled into the forests when his native shtetl Novogrudok in Belarus, was destroyed by...
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Yankel Glincman (Jack Glinzman), was born in the town of Wlodawa, Poland after Pesach in 1928, to Leibush and Simma. He had...
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This report is based on a chapter of Betty Brodsky Cohen’s upcoming book “The Tunnel People” which tells the personal stories of...
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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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Gutke Gantzevitz was born in 1920 in Karelitz, a small town in Belarus. Her parents Devoshke & Zelig were merchants and owned...
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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.
