Antal (born as Adolf) Oppenheimer was born on January 17, 1910, in Budapest, Hungary. His early childhood was spent in the vicinity of the Franz Joseph Castle around the time of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The Oppenheimer family lived there at the invitation of a wealthy banker,...
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Alexander Salomon was born on June 22nd, 1919, in Zvollen, Slovakia, and grew up in an isolated, ultra-orthodox community in Dej, Transylvania,...
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In 1942, Isidore (Izzy) Karten and his brother Hersch, escaped from their village of Swirz to avoid being confined to the ghettos...
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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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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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Carmen Rousso (née Karmen Kakis) was born on April 17, 1923, in the northern Greek town of Drama. She also spent a...
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Hermann Wygoda was born on November 18, 1906, in Offenbach, Germany to Polish parents, Chana and Maier Wygoda. He had a younger...
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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.
