Moric “Moris” Albahari was born on October 30, 1930, in Sanski Most, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, to Luna and David Albahari. He had three older sisters: Flora, Rahela, and Judita. After moving to a few different communities, his family settled in Drvar, where Moric’s father owned a successful dry goods...
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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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Bernard (Berel, Boris) Novick was born August 14, 1922, in the small town of Marzinkance, Poland, deep in the forests near the...
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Cesia Pomeranc was born on March 15, 1926, in the village of Wyryki near the river town of Wlodova, Poland to Bella...
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Born in 1920 in the predominantly Jewish town of Horodok, Poland, Moshe Baran was the eldest of four children. In 1941, when...
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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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Sam Goldwasser (born Jacob Simcha) was born on November 28, 1928, in Parczew, Poland, to Yehuda Leib and Henia Goldwasser. Yehuda Leib...
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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.
