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Frank Blaichman was born in a small town called Kamionka, Poland.

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Adolf Hitler comes to power in Germany and begins to ban all parties besides the Nazi party and takes many rights away for Jews.

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The German army begins to invade the western and central parts of Poland.

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Within mouths of the invasion more regulations for Jewish people were put into place causing them to wear the yellow Star of David everywhere they go and requiring special papers to travel.

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Frank's family soon began to run out of money. Frank had to start taking risks. He took to the road illegally without travel papers or the Star of David to buy and sell whatever goods he could find.

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Life became harder and harder for Frank and the Jewish community. They suffered hunger, disease, harassment, raids and shootings.

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Frank and the Jews of Kamionka heard that they would be relocated to a ghetto in Lubartow. Frank instead escaped and hid out in a bushy area just outside of town.

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Frank learned that his family and other Jews in his community had not been relocated to a ghetto but instead put on a train to an unknown location. He fled to the woods with thousands of other Jews.

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Frank soon realized the forest did not provide enough protection when after getting a tip, German soldiers invaded their shelter in the woods. 80 Jews were killed during this invasion but Frank was one of the 22 men that survived. Frank and the group of men that survived began to seek shelter in more secluded and safe areas such as small villages, keeping on the move or farmer's houses along the way.

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Frank and his group joined an even stranger all-Jewish unit with ties to Polish underground and Soviet army. They gave them much need food and shelter. Frank and the rest of the group saved 200 Jews living in the forest encampment.

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After the war Frank became a Polish security officer in charge or tracking down Nazi collaborators. He also married his wife Cesia Pomeranc which he met during the war.

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Fed up with the continued antisemitism in Poland even after the war Frank and his wife began looking to move. They eventually immigrated to the United States and settled in the New York area. He went on to write a book and do many interviews to help better educate what happened during WWII and how Jewish people resisted.

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We went through many hardships, many sufferings, I can tell you. But somehow, we overcame all that suffering. And let me tell you another thing. The first two months we were in the forest, it was very bad. We went through hunger, scary beatings, all kinds of things. But none of us, including me, was complaining. You know what I was saying? This is still better than to be in a concentration camp or a death camp, no matter what it is. And tomorrow is going to be another day. That's [what] I was telling myself, and all the others were saying the same thing. And that's how we overcame all these things. You know, we were sleeping in the forest in freezing rain, in storm, snow, on the snow. The snow covered us up. In the morning I got up-[there] was a blanket of snow. That's how we were living for the first few months. Sometimes for several days going around wet, hungry, but still we didn't give it up. We were hardened, not softened.
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We went through many hardships, many sufferings, I can tell you. But somehow, we overcame all that suffering. And let me tell you another thing. The first two months we were in the forest, it was very bad. We went through hunger, scary beatings, all kinds of things.