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Rather die fighting -
Frank Blaichman

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Kamionka, Poland, a small town surrounded by other small towns. Home of many Jews and Poles. Until the Germans invaded. After the invasion and relocation of the Jews, the few who escaped lived within the Poles hiding and posing as family. They did everything they could to not be found.

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Frank was only 16 when his resistance started. Being born in a small town in Poland was had already. Then the German Army invaded in September 1939. Frank's first resistance was posing as a Pole to go from town to town to buy and sell anything he could to help his family. By 1942 the community Frank was in was suffering from hunger and disease. In October of 1942 the Judenrat inform the Jews of the town that they were going to be moved to a ghetto.

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Franks Memoir gives in depth details of what he went through. All of his hardships and memories from the horrible treatment he had to go through. It tells the true story of how the Jews were treated and how the did what they could to survive.

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Frank Blaichman was sixteen years old when the war broke out. In 1942, the killings began in Poland. With his family and friends decimated by the roundups, Blaichman decided that he would rather die fighting; he set off for the forest to find the underground bunkers of Jews who had already escaped.

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Frank started a defensive unit after they were attacked by German soldiers. The unit was small at first and was only armed with old rifles and pistols. Frank received help from Samuel Gruber and 28 others, who escaped from a death camp, that were all in the Polish army before being captured by the Germans. He later got help from Armina Ludowa who supplied Frank's unit with food, machine guns, grenades, land mines and more.

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Many unknown people were in Franks unit but 2 of the big contributors are Samuel "Mietek" Gruber and Armina Ludowa. They added men to the unit and provided food, weapons, and ammunition

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Franks time in the forest was better than being in a death camp or a concentration camp. The forest was not the ideal place for him to live due to the beatings and constant fear of attack.

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- Posing as a Pole to help his family
- Not wearing the star of David
- Destroying Factories
- Disrupting communications

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-https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/resistance-during-holocaust/frank-blaichman-s-biography

-http://www.jewishpartisans.org/partisans/frank-blaichman

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Killed many spies working for the Germans. Saved many Jews lives. Disrupted communication, damaged dairy factories that provided food for the Germans, and they ambushed German patrols.