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Zivia Lubetkin
Zivia Lubetkin ( pl, Cywia Lubetkin, , he, צביה לובטקין, nom de guerre: Celina; 9 November 1914 – 11 July 1978) was one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the only woman on the High Command of the resistance group Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB). She survived the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1946, at the age of 32. Biography Pre-World War II Zivia Lubetkin was born in Byteń in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus). She joined the Labor Zionist Movement at an early age. During her school years, Lubetkin was educated in Hebrew by private tutors. In her late teens she joined the Zionist youth movement Dror, and in 1938 became a member of its Executive Council. After Nazi Germany and later the Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 1939 she made a perilous journey from the Soviet occupied part of the country to Warsaw to join the undergrou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivatsevichy District
Ivatsevichy (Ivacevičy) District is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Region, in Belarus. Its administrative center is Ivatsevichy. In this district the sixth largest lake in Belarus Vygonoschanskoye Lake is situated. Demographics At the time of the Belarus Census (2009), Ivatsevichy Raion had a population of 59,906. Of these, 94.4% were of Belarusian, 3.7% Russian, 0.9% Ukrainian and 0.5% Polish ethnicity. 76.5% spoke Belarusian and 22.7% Russian as their native language. Notable residents * Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (English: Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko; 1746, Mieračoŭščyna estate – 1817), national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and the United States * Bishop Mikalaj (Šamiacila) (1877, Aborava village — 1933) — bishop of Slutsk, victim of Stalinism Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist-Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. It included the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
