The story of Leon Bakst by Carter Slusher https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj We will discuss the story of a Jewish teen who helps others flee en-us 2018-05-01 13:07:47 UTC 2025-12-11 06:55:33 UTC hello@padlet.com Leon Bakst carter_slusher https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/256832843 Leon and Libby Bakst in 1944.]]> 2018-05-01 13:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/256832843 Family life 1 carter_slusher https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/256834644 Leon Bakst was one of four siblings born in Ivie, a small Polish town. Leon was 15 when the Germans occupied Ivie in the summer of 1941 and forced the town’s Jews into a ghetto. When the Nazis asked Leon’s father what his job was he lied and told the Germans that he was a brush maker. e guessed they would have more use for a tradesman skills. His guess was correct as he was spared from the initial massacre of Jewish men.]]> 2018-05-01 13:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/256834644 Ivie 3 carter_slusher https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/256838071 Before the first World War Ivie was part of the Russian Empire,
then Poland then part of the Soviet Union, Now in Belarus which is a country in Europe.]]> 2018-05-01 13:26:06 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/256838071 The story of resistance 2 carter_slusher https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/256840842 Leon Bakst a teenager from Ivie escaped from a work camp and hiked to the Naliboki forest with over a dozen other Jews to join the Bielski Brigade.]]> 2018-05-01 13:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/256840842 Bielski Brigade 4 carter_slusher https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/256845120 organization of Jewish refuges who rescued Jews from extermination and fought against the Nazis.]]> 2018-05-01 13:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/256845120 Video of Leon bakst carter_slusher https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261562515 2018-05-17 13:00:28 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261562515 Is he still alive? 6 carter_slusher https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261571892 Yes and the month of may on the second was his 92nd birthday]]> 2018-05-17 13:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261571892 Bielski brigade carter_slusher https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261576241 These where some of the Jews who fought for others]]> 2018-05-17 13:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261576241 Remembrance carter_slusher https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261579003 This memorial was for the Bieliski brigade ,embers who lost there lives.]]> 2018-05-17 13:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261579003 Quotes 7 carter_slusher https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261887278 ¨The tragic separation from his family actually saved his life¨

“Even if we saved a few lives and shortened the war we made a contribution,”

“Sheer survival was the great motivator”
]]> 2018-05-18 12:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261887278 Article carter_slusher https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261888270 Holocaust museum on Leon and his amazing life]]> 2018-05-18 12:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261888270 Naliboki massacre 5 carter_slusher https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261894199 The forest in which he was staying at had a massacre a few years before The Naliboki massacre the mass killing of 129 Poles, including women and children, by The soviets on 8 May 1943 imagine trying to live where prior many more human beings had been slaughtered.]]> 2018-05-18 12:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_slusher/mlum8uax4ctj/wish/261894199