Gelman, Charles

Referring to the Holocaust, Charles Gelman writes in his memoir Do Not Go Gentle, "to know and understand fully, you had to live through it." And yet Mr. Gelman has created a permanent memory of his armed resistance of the Nazis during the Holocaust. Mr. Gelman was born in 1925, in Kurenits, which was then part of Poland, as the youngest child of Yitskhok and Feyge, and sibling to sisters Sarah, Ethel, Minna and Dina. Studying in a yeshiva in Vilna, he trekked back home after Germany invaded Poland, only to be sent to a work ghetto in a neighboring town. Upon learning of the massacre of all hi...