A place for families of Jewish partisans from World War II to connect and share their stories.
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Lilka (Ticktin) Bielski


Lilka Ticktin was born in Bialystock, Poland, on January 13, 1926. Before she was a year old, her family settled in Novogrudok. Her mother, Zina, was from a well-to-do, cultured family. Her father, Alter, had a thriving business collecting rags and processing them in multiple warehouses to produce paper....

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Abram Zyzemski (Alfred Zenner) 


Abram Zyzemski (later known as Alfred Zenner) was born on August 5, 1927, in Lida, Poland (now Belarus), to Mordechai, a cobbler, and Tzirel Magulska. He...

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Luba Wrobel Goldberg


Luba Wrobel Goldberg was born on May 6, 1923, and raised in the shtetl of Ciechanowiec, Poland. She attended the Zionist Tarbut...

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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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Michael Stoll (Stolowitzky)


Michael Stoll (Stolowitzky) was born on February 21, 1926, in Lida, Poland to parents Leon Stolowitzky, an accountant, and Sarah Stolowitzky. He...

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Yehoshua Kanonich


Yehoshua Kanonich fled from his hometown of Manyevich, Poland on September 1, 1942, as the Gestapo was emptying the surrounding villages of...

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Jack Kagan


Jack (Idel) Kagan was born on April 7, 1929, in the town of Navahrodok, Poland (current day Novogrudok, Belarus). He lived in...

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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.