Glazman Josef
Dates of Existence
1913
07/10/1943
History
"A leader of the underground and partisans in Lithuania, and of the Betar movement there. From November 1941 he served as deputy chief of the Jewish ghetto police in the Vilnius (Vilna) ghetto. Glazman was one of the founders of the FPO (United Partisans Organization) in the ghetto, serving as its deputy commander and also worked in the ghetto's educational and cultural programs, while continuing his underground activities. These brought him into conflict with ghetto police chief Jacob Gens, who was head of the ghetto from July 1942, and Gens eventually dismissed Glazman from his post. On July 24, 1943, Glazman left the ghetto with a group of FPO members to join the partisans. In the Narocz Forest he formed the Jewish partisan unit ""Nekama"" (Hebrew: Revenge)."