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Back in the News: Remnants of Lithuania’s Last anti-Nazi Jewish Partisan Fort, Right Next Door to New German Army NATO Battallion

Posted on 10 April 2026 by Defending History

JEWISH FORT IN THE FOREST | FANIA YOCHELES BRANTSOVSKY | DR. RACHEL MARGOLIS | BLAMING THE VICTIMS

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Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky (1922-2024) shows us where she and 99 other Jewish escapees from certain death in the Vilna Ghetto lived and fought the Nazis in this underground fort in the forest now right next door to the German Army’s new Brigade in Lithuania. Click on image for 2007 video.

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