The oldest surviving child of Wolf and Sarah Koladicki, Paula Burger was born in 1934 in a small town near Novogrudok, in what is now Belarus. Novogrudok had a vibrant Jewish community, and Jews made up about half of the area’s twelve thousand people. Paula’s family lived with her...
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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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Ann Monka, was born in Lida, Poland in 1929 and was the youngest of three children born to Leon and Sarah Stolowitzky....
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Ruth Lapidus, maiden name Novoprudsky, born on October 18, 1925, was one of the Jews who survived the Holocaust by fleeing into...
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Boris Greineman was born in Dizsna, located on the Dvina River, in the Vitebsk region, part of Greater Poland at the time....
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Essie Shor, born Esia Levine, was taken on December 3rd, 1925, in the Polish town of Novogrudok (now northeast Belarus). She lived...
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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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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.
