Brenda Senders a Jewish Polish partisan. Her partisan unit conducted ambushes, occupied villages, blew up bases, bridges, and train tracks.
Joseph and Irene Greenblatt. Joseph, met his wife in the Warsaw ghetto where they were married. Joseph and Irene were both a part of the Warsaw uprising and escaped the ghetto, becoming partisans in the surrounding area.
A sketch by Jewish partisan Eugenio Gentilli-Tedeschi done while serving in his unit. The sketch "shows a funeral of a partisan fallen during combat. His name was Giorgio Elter. He had participated in an assault on a roadblock in Aosta. The expeditio
A Jewish partisan in the Italian First Alpine Division, Harry Burger used his fluency in German to interrogate captured soldiers. One of the division’s most important tasks was the sabotage of German electric capabilities in Northern Italy, where the dest
Faye Schulman, partisan fighter and photographer, with commander on a boat as they head off on a mission that would lead them near Nazi areas. Photo taken by fellow partisan.
A self-portrait of photographer Julia Diament Pirotte. Pirotte grew up in a working class Jewish family in Warsaw. In the 1930's she emigrated to Belgium, where she married and studied photography. After the German occupation of Belgium and the depor
Faye Schulman, partisan fighter and photographer, with other Jewish Partisans who she knew from before the war. They were acting as messengers for another partisan brigade. Faye says she was, "happy that there are three Jewish boys fighting."
Cover of the underground Yiddish newspaper, Jugend Shtimme (Voice of the Youth), which was distributed in the Warsaw Ghetto. The Yiddish caption reads "Fascism must be smashed!"
Below are questions answered by many of the Jewish partisans JPEF interviewed. Check and uncheck any answer or combination of answers, then scroll down to see which partisans answered like you did. Click their photo to find out more about them.