I then lived for almost 2 years in the depths of the Lithuanian forest as a member of a Jewish partisan group until I was liberated by the advancing Soviet army. What series of events enabled me to ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Nazis came for Rose Holm’s family in the afternoon. By the evening, the 16-year-old was lying among corpses in the underground bunker where she and her family had been hiding.

One of the most prominent national Jewish advocacy groups weighed in on the New York City Democratic primary for mayor ...

Unfortunately, too many conservatives and Republicans are making the mistake that partisans on the left used to make and ...

American Jewish leaders have always insisted that when it comes to support for Israel and fighting antisemitism, we should ...

Some organizations applauded the move. But the raid chilled other American Jews, even some who consider themselves supporters ...

As a follow-up to that article, I shall now cover another group of Jewish freedom fighters who chose not to meekly submit to Nazi tyranny: the Bielski Partisans of German-occupied Poland (in a ...

Brantsovsky escaped the ghetto in 1942 and fought against the Nazis and their local collaborators in the Rudninkai forest with a group of Jewish partisans under the command of Abba Kovner.

Starving, lacking supplies, and facing ruthless oppression, Jewish partisans carried out acts of rebellion within the ghettos. Among the most famous is the Warsaw ghetto uprising that began on ...

Faye Schulman was one of the only known Jewish partisan photographers of the Second World War, and in The Photographer, her grandson, Michael Tward, tells the story of her life. Schulman lived in ...