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During the Second World War, approximately 28,500 Soviet women fought in the ranks of the partisans on Soviet territory temporarily occupied by the Wehrmacht. Although Soviet propaganda destined for the home front often spoke about their contributions, they eschewed direct appeals for others to follow in their footsteps. In contrast, partisan leaflets distributed across occupied territory overtly called ...

Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954), Yiddish writer and cultural activist, born in Vilna, Lithuania. orphaned at age six and raised by his grandfather, Kaczerginski learned the lithographer's trade. As a youth, he was involved with outlawed Communist groups and was arrested several times, serving a lengthy prison term. In the 1930s, two of his revolutionary poems became popular in Poland. He wrote short ...

USHMM holds some copies RG‐11.001M.09 (Reels 111, 186, 205, 378‐381) https://collections.ushmm.org/findingaids/RG-11.001M.09_01_fnd_en.pdf

Inventory 1. Documents of the Party archive of the Crimean Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. 501 files. File 115. Review of the documents of the Crimean underground movement (Patriotic War). 1959. 26 pages. File 116. References and attachments to them on the partisans and members of underground patriotic organizations of the WWII period, confirmed by the Crimean Regional Party Committee. ...

Documentation of the central committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia, 1941-1944
 
 Included in the collection, among other material:
 
 - Documentation of the central committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia;
 - Documentation of the headquarters of the partisans movement;
 - Lists of Communists;
 - Personal documents of Jewish Communists;
 - Situation ...

Various documents on the activities of the staff of Lithuanian SS and SD department (includes documents about collaboration with local partisans – for example: reports by the leader of the Vilijampolė partisan unit to the chief of the security department of the Kaunas administrative region about arrested Jews on June 23, 1941; list of residents (mostly Jews) arrested by partisans of Vilijampolė partisan ...

Documentation belonging to the gendarmerie unit in the Khoyniki district, 1942-1943
 
 The Collection includes primarily reports and instructions from the Gendarmerie Headquarters in Zhitomir, as well as instructions from the (Gebietskommissar) district commissioner in Reytschitza and correspondence of the unit, particularly with the regional Gendarmerie Headquarters in Reytschitza. The material ...

Collection contains minutes of interrogation of partisans, questionnaires. List of policemen and elders killed and wounded in the fight against the partisans. Report on the partisan attack in the villages of Chaplevka, Sobichevo. Applications for admission to the police. Communist personal cards, communist lists, denunciations of citizens, report about Jewish family, reports on fighting partisans. ...

Partisan strongholds

Consists of one DVD, entitled "We Are Here", written and produced by Harrison Heller. The documentary tells the story of Helen Bronstein and Harry Shabas, who participated in a Jewish partisan group from 1942-1945 and later married. Helen Bronstein, who is interviewed on the documentary along with her sister, Dorothy, was originally from Drohiczyn, Poland, and survived in various hiding places until ...

The collection documents the experiences of Vi︠a︡cheslav Lvovitch Tamarkin, originally from the Soviet Union, and includes a Russian certificate, dated 14 September 1993, attesting to the fact that Tamarkin was an inmate of Nazi concentration camps; his memoir, "In the Burrow," describing his experiences in Lyadi ghetto and an unnamed concentration camp, the killing of Jews, his escape from the camp, ...

The Abram Kashtan collection contains various documents relating to Abram Kashtan, a Holocaust survivor who hid in a barn for a year before joining with anti-Nazi partisans. Included in the collection are his diary filled with partisan and camp songs, health documents such as an immunization record and health certificate, and identification documents such as identification cards and a certificate of ...