“Yura Lifshits, Belgian guerrilla. Like a resident with one gun stopped a train heading to Auschwitz, and rescued over a hundred prisoners on April 22, 07:21 NV Premium: Photo of Yuri Lifshits guerrillas armed with flags, flashlights and gun, attacked a German echelon”, – WRITE ON: UA.news
Photo by Yuri Lifshitsa, 1930s (Photo: Yad Vashem Photo Archives)
On April 19, 1943, three Belgian guerrillas, armed with flags, flashlights and gun, attacked a German echelon (Auschwitz). Some of the enlightened managed to escape.
In the history of a guerrilla attack on a train with prisoners, which was taken by a concentration camp, an attack on the twentieth convoy was called. And it was the first and only one in the World War II, which ended with a massive escape of prisoners. The attack was organized by 26-year-old doctor Yura Lifshits, who was born and held a childhood in Kiev. Only two friends assisted, but the Nazis thought they were dealing with a large guerrilla detachment and therefore lost.
Lifshitsa is known to serve his father in the Russian army, and his mother came from the wealthy family of Kishinovsky Jews and received education in Sorbonne. For some time the family lived in Munich, later moved to Kiev. And in 1928 the parents divorced and the mother took out 11-year-old Yura and his older brother to Belgium.
The future hero was a student at the Faculty of Medical Faculty of Brussels University when Belgium capitulated Belgium on May 28, 1940 before Nazi Germany. Despite a number of anti-Jewish laws, including the ban on Jewish doctors to engage in medicine, he completed his studies and worked at the Brussels Hospital of Saint-Pierre by the summer of 1942. In the same year, a Kiev resident joined the resistance movement, realizing that Nazi Germany was moving to the “final resolution of the Jewish issue.”
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