Frank Blaichman (1922–2018)
Autore di Rather Die Fighting
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Frank Blaichman was born Franek Blajchman in Kamionka, Poland on December 11, 1922. For a time after the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939, he managed to bicycle about freely and ferried food from outlying farms into the village. When local Jews were rounded up in 1942, he said goodbye to mostra altro his family and fled. He ended up in the forest, where he met others who had sought refuge and organized a defense force. He eventually commanded more than 100 armed Jewish partisans and they spent the war disrupting German supply lines and communications and ferreting out Poles who were collaborating with the Nazis. After the war, he was assigned to the Polish Security Police and tracked down Nazi collaborators. In 1951, he and his wife immigrated to the United States and settled in the New York area. He became a builder and developer and was active in promoting the legacy of the partisans. His memoir, Rather Die Fighting: A Memoir of World War II, was published in 2009. He died on December 27, 2018 at the age of 96. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Frank Blaichman
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Blaichman, Ephraim
Blajchman, Franek
Blajchman, Franciszek
Bleichman, Frank - Data di nascita
- 1922-12-11
- Data di morte
- 2018-12-27
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
Poland (birth) - Luogo di nascita
- Kamionka, Poland
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Attività lavorative
- Holocaust survivor
resistance fighter
property developer
memoirist - Relazioni
- Gruber, Samuel (fellow partisan)
- Breve biografia
- Frank Blaichman was born Franek Blajchman to a Jewish family in the small town of Kamionka, Poland, southeast of Warsaw. He was 16 years old when Nazi Germany invaded his country in World War II. He took many risks to help his parents and six siblings survive. He rode a bicycle from neighboring villages and farms to nearby cities, buying and selling food and other supplies. He refused to wear the Star of David and managed to travel without being recognized as a Jew. When he learned that all the Jews of Kamionka were to be resettled in the Lubartow ghetto (they were, in fact, deported to an unknown destination), he hid outside the town. Making his way to the forest, he found more than 100 Jews living in an encampment of small bunkers. Eventually, they were joined by more refugees. Blaichman organized a defense force that acquired weapons; eventually the group met up with men who had fought in the Polish Army and others with ties to the Polish underground and the Soviet Army. At the age of 21, he was the unit's youngest platoon commander. They spent the war disrupting German supply and communications lines and ambushing German patrols. In July 1944, when the Red Army took Lublin from the Germans, Blaichman's partisan group entered the city. After the war, he was assigned to the Polish Security Police, and married Cesia Pomeranc, who had been part of a different Jewish partisan group. However, with the anti-Semitism of the postwar period, "I did not see a rosy future for Jews in Poland," he later wrote. The couple emigrated first to Germany and then to the USA, settling in the New York City area. Mr. Blaichman became a builder and developer. His memoir, Rather Die Fighting, was published in 2009.
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- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 28
- Popolarità
- #471,397
- Voto
- 4.4
- ISBN
- 3