Pesach (Paul) Friedberg Pesach Friedberg, the youngest of three brothers, was born in Novogrudok, Poland, on September 15, 1918. He never knew his father, Eli, who was murdered during a pogrom in Poland before his youngest son was born. His mother, Hinda, raised Pesach and his two older brothers,...
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Eva (Chava) Kaminska Etkin was born on January 15th, 1913 in Glubokie, Poland (now Belarus) where she lived with her parents, Michaela...
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Antal (born as Adolf) Oppenheimer was born on January 17, 1910, in Budapest, Hungary. His early childhood was spent in the vicinity...
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Tzalke Ginsburg and his brother Motke escaped from Ivie to the village of Dokodova where they joined the Iskra Otriad. Together the...
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Esther Klug (born Esther Ass) was born on June 5, 1928, in Novogrudok, Poland. She lived with her parents, Yaakov Menachem and...
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Rita Gurwitz Yelgin was born on June 21, 1921, in Slonim, Lithuania, and grew up in Grodno, Poland. She lived with her...
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A Young Girl Escapes the Novogrudok Ghetto: A Jewish Partisan Story of Survival Lisa Reibel was born to Hinda (Bloch) and Nachum...
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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.
