gesia glazer, pencil sketch by Dr k Prabhakar rao

GESIA GLAZER, JEWISH. NAZI RESISTANCE WW II

Gesia Glazer was a Jewish Partisan. Though she escaped the Germans by fleeing to USSR, in 1943 she parachuted back into Lithuania. She worked as a liaison between the partisan organization in the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto and the command of the Lithuanian partisan movement. In 1944, when surrounded by German soldiers, rather than face capture, she leapt to her death.