Partisan ww2
Lithuania's Jewish partisan bunkers caught between Holocaust memory and military expansion
Lithuania was for centuries a center of rich Jewish thought, religious life and secular culture; Vilna, as the capital was known in Yiddish, was nicknamed the “Jerusalem of the North.”
Star of David band, siddur found under attic floorboards in building from Bedzin's Jewish Ghetto
Aron Bell, last of the Bielski brothers whose famed brigade saved 1,200 Jews, dies at 98
Jews saving Jews: The story of the Bielski partisans
Untold valor: Jewish resistance during the Holocaust revealed in new documentary
Paula Apsell’s new film tells the stories of Jews who fought back in the Shoah.
Documentary ‘Four Winters’ recounts the hell and fury of Jewish partisans who fought the Nazis
Written and directed by Julia Mintz, the film recounts the story of several Jewish partisans: women and men from the ghettos who escaped Nazi roundups to the concentration camps.
'Resistance': How underground forces sabotaged the Nazis - review
History of disparate actions by underground forces throughout Europe in World War II.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
