From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   [Jewish Telegraphic Agency]   
      
   Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter,   
   dies at 102   
      
   Remaining in Lithuania after the war, she became a keeper of the flame of   
   the city's once illustrious Yiddish culture.   
         .......   
   Lithuania's Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the   
   passing of Fania Brantsovsky, the last surviving member of the Jewish   
   underground in the Vilna ghetto and a keeper of the flame of the city's   
   once glorious Yiddish past, who died at the age of 102 on Sunday in   
   Vilnius.   
      
   Brantsovsky escaped the ghetto in 1942 and fought against the Nazis and   
   their local collaborators in the Rudninkai forest with a group of Jewish   
   partisans under the command of Abba Kovner   
           ........   
   "We blasted trains and placed explosives in the enemy's equipment. We   
   shot and killed them," she told Centropa. "Yes, I did, I killed them   
   and did so with ease. I knew that my dear ones were dead and I took my   
   revenge for them and thousands of others with each and every shot."   
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   rest:   
   https://www.jta.org/2024/09/23/obituaries/fania-brantsovsky-viln   
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