#zhetel — Public Fediverse posts
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"A collection of #poems #written by a #Jewish #partisan during #WorldWarII has been preserved and revealed decades after being hidden from both the public and his family, offering a rare personal account of life among Jewish fighters in the forests.
#MordechaiDunitz, born in 1922 in the town of #Zhetel, now in #Belarus, survived the #Holocaust with his sister, Pania, after the two escaped the #Novogrudok ghetto and joined partisan fighters in the #Naliboki Forest. Amid battles and daily struggles for survival, Dunitz found a way to express his thoughts and emotions by #writing #poetry.
The poems were written in secret on thin, fragile scraps of paper and kept out of sight for decades, unknown even to his family."