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29 results
title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
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Primo Levi | Primo Michele Levi | 1919 | 1987 | Italian | chemist, partisan, writer, and Jewish Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primo_Levi |
Yitzhak Arad | Yitzhak Arad | 1926 | 2021 | Israeli | historian, author, IDF brigadier general and Soviet partisan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Arad |
Abba Kovner | Abba Kovner | 1918 | 1987 | Israeli | poet, writer and partisan leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Kovner |
Tuvia Bielski | Tuvia Bielski | 1906 | 1987 | Belarusian | Jewish militant who was leader of the Bielski group, a group of Jewish partisans who set up refugee camps for Jews fleeing the Holocaust during World War II. Their camp was situated in the Naliboki forest, which was part of Poland between World War I and World War II, and which is now in western Belarus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvia_Bielski |
Joseph Harmatz | Joseph Harmatz | 1925 | 2016 | Lithuanian | Jew who fought as a partisan fighter during World War II. After the war, he joined Nakam and plotted acts of revenge that were aimed at killing Nazis and other Germans to avenge Jewish deaths during the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Harmatz |
Asael Bielski | Asael Bielski | 1908 | 1945 | null | second-in-command of the Bielski partisans during | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asael_Bielski |
Aron Bielski | Aron Bielski | 1927 | n/a | Polish | Jew and former member of the Bielski partisans group, the largest armed rescuers of Jews by Jews during World War II. He was also known as Arczyk Bielski | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Bielski |
Nahum Eitingon | Nahum Isaakovich Eitingon | 1899 | 1981 | Soviet | intelligence officer, who gained prominence through his involvement in several NKVD operations, including the assassination of Leon Trotsky, the orchestration of partisan movements during World War II, and atomic espionage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_Eitingon |
Shalom Yoran | Shalom Yoran | 1925 | 2013 | null | survivor of the Holocaust and a former Jewish partisan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom_Yoran |
Simcha Zorin | Shalom (Simcha) Zorin | 1902 | 1974 | Soviet | Jewish partisan commander in Minsk | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcha_Zorin |
Rachel Margolis | Rachel Margolis | 1921 | 2015 | null | Holocaust survivor, partisan, biologist and Holocaust historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Margolis |
Alexander Bogen | Alexander Bogen | 1916 | 2010 | Polish | visual artist, a decorated leader of partisans during World War II, a key player in 20th century Yiddish culture, and one of the trailblazers for art education and Artists' associations in the emerging state of Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogen |
Hirsh Glick | Hirsch Glick | 1922 | 1944 | null | Jewish poet and partisan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsh_Glick |
Faye Schulman | Faye Schulman | 1919 | 2021 | null | Jewish partisan photographer, and the only such photographer to photograph their struggle in Eastern Europe during World War II. Her full name was Faigel "Faye" Lazebnik Schulman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye_Schulman |
Alexander Zeisal Bielski | Alexander Zeisal "Zus" Bielski | 1912 | 1995 | null | leader of the Bielski partisans who rescued approximately 1,200 Jews fleeing from the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Zeisal_Bielski |
Vitka Kempner | Vitka Kempner | 1920 | 2012 | Polish | Jewish partisan leader during World War II. She served in the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye) and, alongside Rozka Korczak and founder Abba Kovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Avengers (Nokmim) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitka_Kempner |
Rozka Korczak | Rozka or Ruzka Korczak | 1921 | 1988 | Polish | Jewish partisan leader during World War II. She served in the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye) and, alongside Vitka Kempner and founder Abba Kovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Avengers (Nokmim)--the only known undefeated ghetto uprising in the history of the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozka_Korczak |
Bouena Sarfatty | Bouena Sarfatty, married name Bouena Sarfatty Garfinkle | 1916 | 1997 | Greek | Jewish World War II partisan, a writer of verse, and a renowned needleworker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouena_Sarfatty |
Joseph Serchuk | Joseph (Yozhik) Serchuk born Józef Serczuk | 1919 | 1993 | null | leader of a Jewish partisan unit in the Lublin area of occupied Poland during the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Serchuk |
Benjamin Levin (partisan) | Benjamin Levin | 1927 | 2020 | null | Jewish partisan during World War II, the last surviving member of the Avengers group led by Abba Kovner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Levin_(partisan) |
Aleksandar Savić | Aleksandar Savić | 1923 | n/a | Croatian | communist activist and member of the partisan resistance movement in Croatia, murdered during the Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Savić |
Anna Maria Enriques Agnoletti | Anna Maria Enriques Agnoletti | 1907 | 1944 | Italian | partisan, shot by the Nazis on 12 June 1944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Maria_Enriques_Agnoletti |
Abrahám Pressburger | Abrahám Pressburger | 1924 | 2018 | Czech | Jewish partisan during World War II. He lived in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahám_Pressburger |
Iser Lubotzky | Iser Lubotzky (Lubocki) | 1922 | 2009 | null | member of Betar, the Vilna-ghetto's underground and a partisan fighter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iser_Lubotzky |
Violeta Yakova | Violeta Yakova or Violeta Jakova | 1923 | 1944 | null | partisan and member of the Bulgarian Communist Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violeta_Yakova |
Eugen Miskolczy | Eugen Miskolczy | 1907 | 1947 | Croatian | physician, partisan and major in the Yugoslav People's Army | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Miskolczy |
Ferruccio Valobra | Ferruccio Valobra | 1898 | 1944 | Italian | partisan and antifascist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferruccio_Valobra |
Yechiel Granatstein | Yechiel Granatstein | 1913 | 2008 | Polish | Jewish author and writer in Yiddish and Hebrew, as well as a partisan fighter in World War II and a Jewish refugee activist following the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yechiel_Granatstein |
Szymon Drenger | Szymon Drenger | 1917 | 1943 | null | leader of a Jewish partisan organization known as the Fighting Pioneer, in Hebrew Hechalutz Ha'Lochem, during World War II. He and three other members of the Fighting Pioneer attacked and killed 20 German soldiers in a cafe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szymon_Drenger |