As Elie Wiesel wrote: “To forget nothing, to efface nothing, that is the obsession of survivors; to plead for the dead, to defend their memory and honor.”
After her escape, Fania joined the famous Bielski Jewish Partisans. Her brother, Motl, who she helped to escape earlier, spent only a few days with the Bielskis before joining the Partisans.
Director Steven Spielberg has optioned the book for a motion picture and signed Batalion to co-write the screenplay.
Benjamin Levin, a partisan who lived in the Vilna forests and survived a Siberian gulag, succumbed to COVID-19.
200 Russian-speaking Jewish veterans gather with families at the United Nations to commemorate Russia’s Victory Day.
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