Benjamin Levin (partisan)
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Benjamin Levin (April 11, 1927
World War II
Levin was born in
He and other Avengers joined the
Irgun Party
He was imprisoned by the NKVD for helping Jews to illegally immigrate to Palestine and his involvement in the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary organization. He spent a year in a Siberian Gulag. After his release he hitchhiked to Italy where he rejoined the party.[3] He studied mechanical engineering and was assigned to the engine room of Altalena. In June 1948, during the confrontation with the Israel Defense Forces, Levin fled the burning ship and settled in Israel.[3]
Later life
In 1967, Levin moved to New York with his family and became a mechanic for the MTA and a gas station owner.[7] Due to multiple fake papers, Levin forgot his real birthday and chose to celebrate it during the Passover.[7] He was married to Sara, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor. They had two children. Levin frequently spoke to high school students about the Holocaust.[3] Levin died on April 13, 2020, from COVID-19 at a nursing home in Westchester County, New York.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Vincent, Isabel (2020-04-18). "Jewish partisan who fought the Nazis loses his battle with coronavirus". New York Post. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
- ^ a b Miller, Dr Yvette Alt (April 20, 2020). "Jewish Partisan Hero Dies of Coronavirus". Aish HaTorah. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
- ^ a b c d e Lebovic, Matt (April 20, 2020). "'Avenger' Benjamin Levin, 'Forrest Gump of Jewish history,' succumbs to COVID-19". Times of Israel. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
- ^ "COVID-19 defeats the last of the Partisan Avengers". The Jerusalem Post. April 20, 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
- ^ "Benjamin Levin". encyclopedia.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
- ^ "USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Benjamin Levin". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
- ^ a b Vincent, Isabel (2017-04-09). "World War II 'Avenger' reveals his heroic Nazi-killing past". New York Post. Retrieved 2020-04-21.