https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0 Parisian en-us 2023-05-23 15:11:23 UTC 2026-01-22 01:05:45 UTC hello@padlet.com jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601873993 Born in Kamionka, Poland, on December 11th, of 1923.

]]> 2023-05-23 15:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601873993 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601885105 Blaichmen took great risks to help his parents and family survive these hardships. With a bicycle, he rode from the neighboring farms to nearby cities, buying and selling goods at each destination.

]]> 2023-05-23 15:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601885105 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601886587 After a German attack on the partisans’ encampment killed eighty Jews, the survivors left the forest to hide with sympathetic farmers. Always on the move, they killed German collaborators, destroyed telephone lines, damaged dairy factories, and ambushed German patrols.

]]> 2023-05-23 15:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601886587 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601887459 “I’m very proud of what I did all those years....The reality was we had nothing to lose, and our way to survive was to fight,” - Frank Blaichmen. 

]]> 2023-05-23 15:22:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601887459 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601888270 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL8TU4w2zZI ]]> 2023-05-23 15:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601888270 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601892269 This is a picture of Frank in his only ever recorded interview. ]]> 2023-05-23 15:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601892269 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601893430 2023-05-23 15:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601893430 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601896098 This is a photo of Frank Blaichman when he escorted the Prime Minister of Poland. ]]> 2023-05-23 15:29:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601896098 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601945363 He refused to wear the Star of David View This Term in the Glossary armband and traveled without the required permits, but his courage and fluent Polish ensured his safety.  Later, Frank encouraged the men to organize a defense unit. He obtained firearms by posing as a Polish policeman, using an overcoat he had found. ]]> 2023-05-23 16:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601945363 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601946089 His squad joined a larger all-Jewish unit, with strong ties to the Polish underground and Soviet army. They were responsible for protecting 200 Jews living in a forest encampment. Only 21, he was the youngest platoon commander in the unit and escorted the future prime minister of Poland to a secret meeting with the Soviet high command.]]> 2023-05-23 16:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601946089 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601948348 When the Germans invaded his town Blaichman was at the age of 16. ]]> 2023-05-23 16:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601948348 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601950980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaLAZt1SmqQ]]> 2023-05-23 16:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2601950980 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2603449284 Young Frank immediately began taking daring risks in an effort to help his parents and his six brothers and sisters survive after his town was invaded. The family needed some way to make money, so Blaichman took to the road illegally. Blaichman, who had learned Polish from customers at his grandmother’s store, rode his bicycle from neighboring farms and villages to Lubartow (six miles to the east) and Lublin (12 miles to the south) and began to buy and sell whatever goods he was able to obtain. ]]> 2023-05-24 15:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2603449284 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2603450517 Passing as a Pole, Frank bought honey, chickens, butter, grains, and meat from the farmers and sold these products in the cities, where he would buy tobacco, yarn, and saccharin to sell back to the farmers. The risks of traveling without papers or the required Star of David armband were enormous, but life for Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland was already precarious.]]> 2023-05-24 15:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2603450517 jaydenmcl25 https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2603457448 This is a family portrait of Frank's family. ]]> 2023-05-24 15:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jaydenmcl25/xboz79a1o2m2m3r0/wish/2603457448