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In WWII, legendary Jewish partisan ‘Uncle Misha’ took out Nazis while carrying a tune

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:03:46 +0000

New book 'Partisan Song' packs an action-filled punch as it tells the story of Moshe Gildenman, a nearly-forgotten Jewish guerrilla warfare leader against the Nazis in Ukraine

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Aron Bell, last of famed partisan Bielski brothers, dies at 98

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:12:00 +0000

Youngest sibling played a key role in his brothers' forest settlement during the Holocaust, sneaking into nearby ghetto to convince Jews to escape

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Nechama Tec, Holocaust survivor whose book inspired the film ‘Defiance,’ dies at 92

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 21:40:23 +0000

Historian's account of the Bielski partisans brought their successful fight against the Nazis to light, and was adapted into 2008 movie starring Daniel Craig

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Descendants of Bielski partisans take to stage and screen to show weighty legacy

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 03:34:45 +0000

Live in LA through Feb. 6, Jordan Bielsky performs saga of brothers who saved 1,250 Jews in WWII; other family members amplify ancestors' heroism in film, exhibit and classroom

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Oscar-qualifying short film strikes chord with story of heroic young WWII partisan

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:25:55 +0000

Made as a film school thesis project, 'NAKAM' is inspired by Motele Schlein, who was killed in a Nazi ambush, but whose violin survived as symbol of resistance and is still played

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Film lauds WWII partisan chief who found Hitler’s V2s, died in Israel in obscurity

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 06:10:56 +0000

Director Roman Shumunov tells the story of Leonid Berenshtein, who climbed the ranks in the underground, eventually discovering the factory producing Hitler's dreaded V2 rockets

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Jewish partisans recount struggle against Nazis in new documentary ‘Four Winters’

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 11:17:31 +0000

Film features archival images and interviews from eight fighters who fled from persecution to battle German occupiers, countering narrative that Jews did not resist regime

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Holocaust survivor whose photos documented the partisan resistance dies

Mon, 10 May 2021 18:47:32 +0000

Faye Schulman, 101, was able to survive 1942 liquidation of Lenin Ghetto by photographing Nazi officials; she escaped and joined the partisans

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Smuggler, fighter, courier, spy: How Jewish women defied the Nazis in Poland

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:08:19 +0000

In 'The Light of Days,' author Judy Batalion tells the extraordinary tale of myriad brave females who took leading roles in clandestine, armed struggle in ghettos and forests

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The other Sarajevo Haggadah — a Ladino communist musical Passover parody

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 07:41:44 +0000

Written in 1944 by Shalom Altarac, the often humorous 'Partisan Haggadah' is rooted in the bloody resistance against the Axis powers and joins a long tradition of haggadah parody

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Love, danger fill epic WWII story revealed by Poland’s oldest rescuer of Jews

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 13:09:31 +0000

100-year-old Jozef Walaszczyk tells about brushes with death, work with the Polish underground, and getting false papers for his Jewish girlfriend, saving her and dozens of others

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LISTEN: Gripping saga of teen’s escape from WWII death march to join partisans

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:17:41 +0000

To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, we hear from two Holocaust survivors with very different tales of survival in war-torn Europe -- and today

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‘Avenger’ Benjamin Levin, ‘Forrest Gump of Jewish history,’ succumbs to COVID-19

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:30:54 +0000

From killing Nazis in Lithuanian forests to jumping from flaming Altalena off Tel Aviv, young hero of Jewish Vilna participated in more than his share of Jewry's turning points

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Holocaust survivor rabbi who led US House in prayer dies of coronavirus at 91

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:17:26 +0000

Congressman eulogizes Romi Cohn, who helped 56 families escape Nazi tyranny and established charity to provide scholarships to religious students

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We are here because the Bielski Partisans fought back

Wed, 01 May 2019 10:31:34 +0000

A ferocious band of brothers waged battle on the Nazis -- their descendants are returning to the forest to celebrate and remember

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