Fania Brantsovsky
“I always felt proud to be Jewish, despite what we experienced in the Holocaust.”
Fania was interned in the Vilnius ghetto with her family. On the day the ghetto was liquidated, she escaped to the partisan forts in Rudnicki Forest. After the war, she married fellow partisan Mischa Brantsovsky. She currently works as a librarian at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute and helps camp and ghetto survivors at the Jewish Community Centre. She actively perpetuates the memory of those who perished through tours of Jewish Vilna and the partisan forts. As she explains: “I guide people to the Ghetto and to Paneriai. I see that as my sacred duty to those who died, who cannot get up and tell others what took place there and in the Ghetto. For as long as my legs will carry me, I must go on doing that. There are other guides... maybe they know the figures and dates better than I do. That is not my main aim, but my story comes straight from the heart.’’
From: Eilat Gordin
Happy 100th Birthday to Dear Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky (Fania Brancovskaja).
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