Mark Werner presents "Fighting Back: Jewish Partisans in Nazi Occupied Poland - a personal chapter from the Holocaust."
Lunch provided by Magnolia Glen.
A Jewish fighting force in the forests of German-occupied Poland during World War II did great damage to the German military and at the same time saved many Jews. This uplifting chapter of the Holocaust is told by the son whose father led that Jewish brigade.
Mark Werner, a retired attorney, is the natonal president of Volunteers For Israel, the U.S. organization providing civilian volunteers to work on Israeli military bases. For the past eighteen years, Mark has gone to Israel annually to volunteer on Israeli bases. Mark also chairs the Triangle’s Israel Task Force which partners with the Israeli city of Hadera to provide assistance to the Ethiopian community in that city.
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