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Grisha “Gavroche” Kaplan

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Grisha “Gavroche” Kaplan

Birth
Minsk, Tsentralny District, Minsk City District, Belarus
Death
Mar 1943 (aged 13)
Minsk, Tsentralny District, Minsk City District, Belarus
Burial
Minsk, Tsentralny District, Minsk City District, Belarus Add to Map
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An anti-Nazi Resistance hero.

A Jewish boy, who joined the Resistance and acted as courier between the ghetto fighters and the Jewish partisans in the forests.
In this function he helped the ghetto prisoners to flee Minsk, delivered secret messages, smuggled ammunition and even guns to the ghetto resistors.

Having been detained by the gestapo he was tortured to death, but still did not give his captors any information.
An anti-Nazi Resistance hero.

A Jewish boy, who joined the Resistance and acted as courier between the ghetto fighters and the Jewish partisans in the forests.
In this function he helped the ghetto prisoners to flee Minsk, delivered secret messages, smuggled ammunition and even guns to the ghetto resistors.

Having been detained by the gestapo he was tortured to death, but still did not give his captors any information.

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  • Created by: Pilgrim
  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89883751/grisha-kaplan: accessed ), memorial page for Grisha “Gavroche” Kaplan (1 Jan 1930–Mar 1943), Find a Grave Memorial ID 89883751, citing Kurapaty Forest, Minsk, Tsentralny District, Minsk City District, Belarus; Maintained by Pilgrim (contributor 47234243).