Parczew partisans
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The area including Parczew
and Włodawa counties near Lublin
in the General Government
became one of the primary battlefields of the Jewish partisan movement. An area of forests and lakes, with few passable roads, the Parczew forest was an ideal location for partisan activity. Notable partisan leaders included Ephraim (Frank) Bleichman
and Shmuel (Mieczslaw) Gruber. Gruber became the second-in-command to Yechiel Grynszpan who led Jewish forces in the Parczew forest, and Bleichman was one of Grynszpan's two platoon commanders.
The group fought along with the People's Guard in a number of intense engagements against German forces, making use of machine guns, explosives for mining railways, and food and other supplies air-dropped by Soviet forces. They participated in the takeover of the city of Parczew on April 16, 1944.
Parczew
Parczew is a town in eastern Poland, with a population of 10,281 . Situated in the Lublin Voivodeship , previously in Biała Podlaska Voivodeship . It is the capital of Parczew County.-History:...
and Włodawa counties near Lublin
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...
in the General Government
General Government
The General Government was an area of Second Republic of Poland under Nazi German rule during World War II; designated as a separate region of the Third Reich between 1939–1945...
became one of the primary battlefields of the Jewish partisan movement. An area of forests and lakes, with few passable roads, the Parczew forest was an ideal location for partisan activity. Notable partisan leaders included Ephraim (Frank) Bleichman
Frank Bleichman
Frank Blaichman was a Polish Jewish member of an armed organization during World War II.-World War 2:...
and Shmuel (Mieczslaw) Gruber. Gruber became the second-in-command to Yechiel Grynszpan who led Jewish forces in the Parczew forest, and Bleichman was one of Grynszpan's two platoon commanders.
The group fought along with the People's Guard in a number of intense engagements against German forces, making use of machine guns, explosives for mining railways, and food and other supplies air-dropped by Soviet forces. They participated in the takeover of the city of Parczew on April 16, 1944.