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Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
Joseph Serchuk
Polish partisan
Alexander Pechersky
Soviet Army captain who led 1943 revolt in Sobibor (1909-1990)
Nakam
thumb|upright=1.3|A US Army lieutenant (left) and a German detective inspecting the (Consumer Cooperative Bakery) in Nuremberg after a poisoning attempt Nakam (, 'revenge') was a paramilitary and terrorist organisation of about fifty Holocaust survivors who, after 1945, sought revenge for the murder of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. Led by Abba Kovner, the group sought to kill six million Germans in a form of indiscriminate revenge, "a nation for a nation". Kovner went to Mandatory Palestine in order to secure large quantities of poison for poisoning water mains to kill large numbers of
Abba Kovner
Jewish Hebrew poet, writer, and partisan leader (1918–1987)
Bielski partisans
Jewish resistance group during World War II
Yitzhak Arad
Israeli historian, retired IDF brigadier general and a former Soviet partisan who has served as director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993
Tuvia Bielski
Polish resistance member (1906–1987)
Masha Bruskina
Soviet Belarusian partisan
Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye
Jewish resistance organisation in Vilna Ghetto during World War II
Hirsh Glick
jewish poet and resistance member (1922–1944)
Sonia Orbuch
American educator and resistance fighter (1925-2018)
Jewish partisans
anti-Nazi and anti-German fighting groups of Jews in World War II
Haika Grossman
Israeli politician (1919-1996)
Rachel Margolis
Jewish Lithuanian historian
Sonya Olschanezky
German member of the French Resistance and SOE (1923–1944)
Shmerke Kaczerginsky
Polish poet (1908–1954)
Yitzhak Wittenberg
Jewish resistance fighter (1907–1943)
Alessandro Fersen
Italian dramatist, actor, theater director, author and drama teacher (1911–2001)
Julia Pirotte
Polish photojournalist in the French Resistance
Rozka Korczak
Polish Jewish partisan leader during World War II (1921–1988)
Alexander Zeisal Bielski
Belarusian partisan (1912-1995)
Faye Schulman
Polish Holocaust survivor
Mariya Fortus
Soviet intelligence officer (1900–1981)
Bouena Sarfatty
Greek World War II partisan, poet and needleworker
Vitka Kempner
Polish Jewish partisan leader during World War II
Liana Millu
Italian writer (1914–2005)
Sara Ginaite
Lithuanian-born Canadian academic and author, former resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor (1924-2018)
Mire Gola
jewish resistance figther in the Kraków ghetto
Ester Wajcblum
Jewish resistance fighter (1924–1945)
Alexander Bogen
Polish-Israeli visual artist and activist; decorated leader of partisans during World War II (1916-2010)
Romi Cohn
American rabbi (1929-2020)
Marianne Baum
German anti-Nazi (1912-1942)
Marianne Joachim
Jewish German resistance activist (1921–1943)
Bella Yaari Hazan
Jewish resistance and underground activist in Nazi ghettos and camps
Sarah Goldberg
Polish-Belgian resistance fighter (1921-2003)
Stanisław Aronson
Polish Jew/Israeli citizen/former officer:Polish Home Army as Lieutenant
Marisa Diena
French-Jewish resistance fighter
Rose Warfman
survivor of Auschwitz, heroine of the French Resistance (1916-2016)