Jewish Partisans In Belarus 1941-1944


Name Patronymic Date of Birth Last Residence Oblast
(Administrative division) 		Brigade Unit (Otriad)
Tunik, Abram Pinchusovich 1914 Minsk Minskaia Voronianskovo Kotovskovo
Tunik, Boris Girshevich 1895 Minsk Baranovichskaia Number:106
Tunik, Boris Shaevich 1907 Minsk Baranovichskaia Number:106
Tunik, Girsh Abramovich 1891 GhettoBaranovichi Baranovichskaia 18thFrunze Frunze
Tunik, Izia L'vovich 1933 Minsk Baranovichskaia Number:106
Tunik, Lev Grigorievich 1900 Minsk Baranovichskaia Number:106
Tunik, Mania Borisovna 1928 Minsk Baranovichskaia Number:106
Tunik, Rosa Borisovna 1925 Minsk Baranovichskaia Number:106
Tunik, Fima L'vovich 1928 Minsk Baranovichskaia Number:106
Tunik, Tzilia Yosifovna 1926 Minsk Baranovichskaia Number:106
Tunik, Shifra Grigorievna 1899 Minsk Baranovichskaia Number:106
Tunik, Esfir Borisovna 1919 Minsk Baranovichskaia Number:106
Tunik, Moisei Yudelevich 1908 Stolbtzi Baranovichskaia Number:106


This list was compiled by Dr. Inna Pavlovna Gerasimova, Director of the Museum of Jewish History and Culture in Minsk, Belarus. Dr. Gerasimova is the author of the book Jews in the Partisan Divisions in Belarus 1941-44, published in Minsk in 2005. This book offers comprehensive documentation of the heroic resistance efforts of Belorussian Jews in the struggle against the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. This translation appears at Jewish Genealogy.

Tunik Partisans from Stolpce who fell in the forests and in battle

TUNIK, Moshe. He was born in 1910 and joined the Zhukov Detachment.
He fell in the thick forests (pushcha) of Naliboki in battle with the enemy,
close to the liberation.
TUNIK, Nechama. She was born in 1915 and was a member of Hashomer Hatzair.
After joining the partisans she was sent to the ghetto to obtain firearms.
She was caught, tortured and didn't reveal anything before being executed.
TUNIK, Azriel. He was born in 1919 and was a member of Hashomer Hatzair
in the Zhukov Detachment. He fell in December 1942 in an attack with the police.
When the bullets were used up, he killed himself with a hand grenade.