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.
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- This article incorporates text from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and has been released under the GFDL.
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- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Partisan Groups in the Parczew Forests
