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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

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Nechama Tec (left)who wrote the 1993 book “Defiance: The Bielski Partisans” was adapted for a 2008 film directed by Edward Zwick starring Daniel Craig (right). (Jewish Women's Archive via JTA)
August 10, 2023, 12:40 am
Nechama Tec, Holocaust survivor whose book inspired the film ‘Defiance,’ dies at 92
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
By Andrew Silow-Carroll and Ben Harris
Group portrait of members of the Kalinin Jewish partisan unit (Bielski group) on guard duty at an airstrip in the Naliboki Forest, 1941-1944. (Courtesy of Photo Archivist, Archival Affairs Branch, The David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
January 25, 2023, 5:34 am
Descendants of Bielski partisans take to stage and screen to show weighty legacy
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
By Lisa Klug
Anton Krymskiy as Mitke in 'Nakam' (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg / Leonard Caspari)
December 20, 2022, 4:25 am
Oscar-qualifying short film strikes chord with story of heroic young WWII partisan
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
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Leonid Berenshtein speaks to director Roman Shumunov in his eponymous film. (Courtesy)
September 30, 2022, 9:10 am
Film lauds WWII partisan chief who found Hitler’s V2s, died in Israel in obscurity
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
By Rich Tenorio
Jewish partisans during the Second World War as shown in the documentary 'Four Winters,' written and directed by Julia Mintz. (New Moon Films via JTA)
September 16, 2022, 2:17 pm
Jewish partisans recount struggle against Nazis in new documentary ‘Four Winters’
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
By Andrew Lapin
Faye Schulman lights a candle at a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at a UJA Federation building in Toronto in 2013. (Vince Talotta/Toronto Star via Getty Images via JTA)
May 10, 2021, 9:47 pm
Holocaust survivor whose photos documented the partisan resistance dies
Faye Schulman, 101, was able to survive 1942 liquidation of Lenin Ghetto by photographing Nazi officials; she escaped and joined the partisans
By Shira Hanau
From left: Renia Kukiełka in Budapest, 1944. (Courtesy of Merav Waldman); Tosia Altman (Courtesy of Moreshet, Hashomer Hatzair Archives); Courier Hela Schüpper (left) and Akiva leader Shoshana Langer disguised as Christians on the Aryan side of Warsaw, June 26, 1943. (Courtesy of Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Photo Archive)
April 7, 2021, 3:08 am
Smuggler, fighter, courier, spy: How Jewish women defied the Nazis in Poland
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
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Left: A group of Jewish civilians and partisans in Croatia, 1942; center: Detail of the ‘Maror’ page of the Sarajevo Haggadah; right: Shani Altarac, seen in 1948, the young Yugoslav partisan who wrote the Partisan Haggadah. (Photos of partisans and Altarac courtesy of Eliezer Papo/ via JTA; photo of haggadah courtesy of the Foundation for Jewish Culture)
March 27, 2021, 10:41 am
The other Sarajevo Haggadah — a Ladino communist musical Passover parody
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
By Theo Canter
Jozef Walaszczyk, who died aged 102-years-old on June 20, 2022 and saved more than 50 Jews during the Holocaust, tells his story at a restaurant in Warsaw, January 28, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)
April 21, 2020, 4:09 pm
Love, danger fill epic WWII story revealed by Poland’s oldest rescuer of Jews
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
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Dr. Hanan Karshai (left, wearing briefs and a hat) as an 18-year-old forced laborer, captured in a rare snapshot that was discarded by the posing Hungarian soldier (far left). (Courtesy)
April 20, 2020, 4:17 pm
LISTEN: Gripping saga of teen’s escape from WWII death march to join partisans
To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, we hear from two Holocaust survivors with very different tales of survival in war-torn Europe — and today
By ToI Staff
Benjamin Levin several years ago and as a member of the 'Avengers' partisan group during World War II (Chaim Levin and public domain)
April 20, 2020, 2:30 pm
‘Avenger’ Benjamin Levin, ‘Forrest Gump of Jewish history,’ succumbs to COVID-19
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
By Matt Lebovic
Rabbi Avraham “Romi” Cohn. (Screen capture/YouTube)
March 24, 2020, 9:17 pm
Holocaust survivor rabbi who led US House in prayer dies of coronavirus at 91
Congressman eulogizes Romi Cohn, who helped 56 families escape Nazi tyranny and established charity to provide scholarships to religious students
By ToI Staff
Yehuda Bielski (sitting second row right) with some Bielski Partisans, (Naliboki Forest, Belarus, 1943)
May 1, 2019, 1:31 pm
We are here because the Bielski Partisans fought back
A ferocious band of brothers waged battle on the Nazis — their descendants are returning to the forest to celebrate and remember
By Tamara Vershitskaya and Leslie Bell
This undated video image released by the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation shows Sonia Orbuch during a video testimony in California. (Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation via AP)
October 8, 2018, 2:53 am
Sonia Orbuch, who fought Nazis as a girl, dies in California
Born Sarah Shainwal in eastern Poland, she was a medic with a resistance group; later in life she helped found the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
By AP
Ariel Paz-Sawicki
January 29, 2018, 2:59 pm
Ariel Paz-Sawicki
Arnold said he was Jewish, so they shot him
If calling the Poles complicit in killing Jews is criminal, then I’m guilty
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