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That's just how it was. She was killed, given up and killed, her name was Glezeryte (Glezer).
Mr. Palevski translating question: Did people try to infiltrate the Partisans?
, ie spies coming in to rat people out?
Fania: Yes, as you'd expect. I must tell you all that I won't mention any families or names
Someone who was among the Partisan leaders in the ghetto
We knew he was in contact with the gestapo (Nazi Police)
And we shot him to death here. We had a trial, discussed it, agreed upon the verdict and executed him.
There were different cases of... We had.. Here's something interesting
We had a man from Holland among us. His name was Hank.
Unfortunately I don't know his last name, I'm still trying to find the name in documents.
He came to us from Holland. He wasn't too far from here
Not far from here there was "torf", do you know what torf is? A type of brown coal (peat).
People worked on the peat there and later a type of German workunit worked it.
He was from Tut/Taut Holland, a big tall man.
A group of ours went out and we're nearly captured.
When we asked why he didn't shoot, he said that his gun had jammed.
He hadn't said that he didn't want to shoot
The brigade's leadership decided that we would let him live.
But a lot of our men who had big feet, who weighed a lot had to go bearfoot, it was really bad.
He was a mechanic.
There was a group of mechanics among us who fixed weapons, the Pene Yosef family
A father with his two sons who were also mechanics before the war and Hank worked with them.
He had decided that he needed to learn Russian.
Eliot: Let me begin to translate before I forget.
As I told you he was really tall. And you see just how big I am!
And I used to get up real early in the morning to keep an eye on him because he was under suspicion.
I went on a mission with him on the day Rotterdam was taken.
You probably want to know, I spoke to him in Yiddish and he understood.
There were all sorts of people among us.
Mr. Palevski after Fania squashes mosquito: She's a Partisan after all.
We used to go on missions. The men were larger and would wade through rivers.
And their boots prevented them from getting real wet.
Well I had short boots, we would wear out the boots, do you know what "partsianki" is?
Partsianki was Soviet army cloth, we didn't wear socks but we wore these cloths.
We would squeeze out the water from the cloths.
It was terrible. There were no vitamins.
We used to make tea from the pine-leaves. They have vitamin C.
My mother used to cook these berries, but said "you should never need them"
Ask them what questions they have.
Maybe they should walk around