Partisan ww2

Jews saving Jews: The story of the Bielski partisans

'Even the old and the sick were valued in the Bielski partisans, and Tuvia made every effort to save their lives as well.'

 A group of Bielski partisans in the Naliboki forest, May, 1944 (courtesy of Yad Vashem Photo Archive, Jerusalem. 5674/3)A group of Bielski partisans in the Naliboki forest, May, 1944 (courtesy of Yad Vashem Photo Archive, Jerusalem. 5674/3)
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Untold valor: Jewish resistance during the Holocaust revealed in new documentary

 Jewish partisans shown in the documentary "Four Winters."

Documentary ‘Four Winters’ recounts the hell and fury of Jewish partisans who fought the Nazis

 A SOLDIER guards the entrance of an underground shelter. The book details the many operations of the underground resistance against the Nazis (Illustrative).

'Resistance': How underground forces sabotaged the Nazis - review


Central Florence park named after prominent Jewish couple

Wanda Lattes and Aaron (Albert) Nirenstein, a Jewish couple who resisted the Nazis during the Holocaust and went on to become influential intellectuals, were commemorated at a ceremony on Monday.

 Florentine flagbearers and trumpeters stand at attention during a dedication ceremony of a park in central Florence named after Jewish couple Wanda Lattes and Albert (Aaron) Nirenstein on September 20, 2021.

Ilona Klein: Hungary's other female partisan

As Elie Wiesel wrote: “To forget nothing, to efface nothing, that is the obsession of survivors; to plead for the dead, to defend their memory and honor.” 

 Ilona Klein.

Fania Brodsky, heroic Holocaust survivor, dies at the age of 100

After her escape, Fania joined the famous Bielski Jewish Partisans. Her brother, Motl, who she helped to escape earlier, spent only a few days with the Bielskis before joining the Partisans.

Batya (Betty) Brodsky Cohen toasts her mother, Fania, on her 100th birthday in Jerusalem on November 15, 2020.

How Judy Batalion found overlooked female Polish WWII resistance fighters

Director Steven Spielberg has optioned the book for a motion picture and signed Batalion to co-write the screenplay.

Renia Kukiełka in Budapest, 1944

COVID-19 defeats the last of the Partisan Avengers

Benjamin Levin, a partisan who lived in the Vilna forests and survived a Siberian gulag, succumbed to COVID-19.

Jewish fighters from the Vilna Ghetto

Russian Jewish WWII veterans honored at UN

200 Russian-speaking Jewish veterans gather with families at the United Nations to commemorate Russia’s Victory Day.

Russian-speaknig Jewish World War II veterans gather with their families at the United Nations on Wednesday to commemorate Russia’s Victory Day.