Long ago, Mendl gave up on debating with people who are not essentially sane. These “not-essentially-sane” people belong to every segment of the IQ measure, every political conviction, religious affiliation, dedication to cultural trends, affiliation with do-good organizations, etc., etc. Mendl was not going to provide an academic treatise re: “Definition of ‘not-so-sane-people.’”
Author: Jack Gostl
Author’s Angry Memorandum
THE AUTHOR’S ANGRY MEMORANDUM
WHAT MADE JS ANGRY? At age 84 and a very special background, many things infuriate him:
Psychiatry (Video)
Summaries
It is a storyline for a movie. IT IS A TRUE STORY. The storyline has, at
its core, the transformative effect of WWII on five key characters
(including myself).
Guidance
Orientation
Make and use “Intellectual Products” that are insightful,
respectful and suitable to cause memorial presentations – and
especially the coming centennial – to be balanced for
remembering the pain, the resistance and heroics of Jews and
Gentiles who fought the perps who committed the worst crime in
history.
This section contains the booklets on the following topics:
- The Iran Deal
- Notes on Blood Libels
- Author’s Musings
- Musings on the Totalitarian Mind
- Author’s Angry Memorandum
- Summaries
- Guidance
- Orientation
Where Did Jewish Partisans Fight?
Jewish partisans fought in almost every country in Europe. There was partisan activity in Belgium, Poland, Russia (Belarus and Ukraine), France, Italy, Greece and Lithuania. The partisans hid their encampments in the forests, swamps and mountains.
Partisan activity was particularly intense in Eastern Europe. Russian partisan units in Eastern Europe were highly organized and trained people to use guns, to dynamite bridges, and operate in a military fashion. Military order was kept in these groups (you could be shot for falling asleep on guard duty).
Partisans in Yugoslavia and Italy ambushed Nazi convoys and drew German attention away from the front. Entire battalions were removed from the front lines to deal with the “partisan problem.” Entire battalions!
Lithuania and Byelorussia
There were 850 Jews in the Lithuanian partisan movement. An additional 450 Jewish Lithuanian fighters in the Belorussian partisan movement and another 350 Lithuanian Jews in other groups brought the total to 1,650 Lithuanian Jews who fought as partisans. Of the 92 partisan battalions, Jews fought in the 22 that had sterling records in battle.
In 1943, Lithuanian Jewish partisans became unified under the direction of the Soviet Lithuanian partisan movement. The partisan movement was their only vehicle to fight actively against the Nazis. In some cases, all-Jewish units were formed within the larger organization of Lithuanian partisans.
Among their many successful missions, Lithuanian Jewish partisans derailed enemy trains, dynamited miles of train tracks, destroyed bridges, factories, water towers, and electrical transformers, and cut hundreds of miles of telephone and telegraph lines. In Vilna, they damaged the power station and sabotaged the water supplies. Other times they secured arms and food supplies.
Ten percent of the Lithuanian partisan population was comprised of Jewish partisans, but the units in which Jews served were responsible for 79% of the train derailments, 72% of the locomotives destroyed, and 22.9 % of the soldiers killed. Sabotage was only one their specialties. In total, 1,650 Jews took part in the resistance movement [as part of the] Lithuanian partisan movement. A total of 250 Jews were killed. Many received medals for their outstanding service.