{"id":20485,"date":"2025-04-23T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?p=20485"},"modified":"2025-04-22T21:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:39:37","slug":"one-survivors-courage-lives-on-through-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/one-survivors-courage-lives-on-through-art\/","title":{"rendered":"One Survivor’s Courage Lives On Through Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI was 19 when the Germans occupied Warsaw.\u201d So begins the story of the late Peretz Chorshati, a Holocaust survivor who became a partisan fighter. The incredible account that follows, told in his own words, is entirely true.<\/p>\n

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The dagger given to him by his father, from Chorshati\u2019s artwork | Photo: Rega Shel Chochma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Peretz\u2019s father, a member of the Polish underground, knew he wouldn\u2019t be able to protect his son. He smuggled him onto a train heading east, hoping he\u2019d be able to join the partisans. In Peretz\u2019s hand, he placed a small dagger\u2014\u201cjust in case.\u201d That was the last time they saw each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cI drew my dagger\u201d<\/strong>
\nAt one point during the journey, the train came to a halt, and document checks began. Peretz realized he was in danger\u2014he had no papers. In a moment of courage, he slipped into an empty brake car and continued the journey. There, exhausted, he fell asleep. When he awoke, a German soldier was sitting beside him. Peretz greeted him in Polish\u2014the soldier didn\u2019t suspect a thing. On the contrary, he offered him food and soon fell asleep by the door.<\/p>\n

As the train began to slow, Peretz knew it was time to escape\u2014but the soldier was blocking the exit.<\/p>\n

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Chorshati sneaks into the empty brake car, from his artwork | Photo: Rega Shel Chochma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI drew my dagger,\u201d he recalled. \u201cMy heart was pounding. I hesitated\u2014I had never hurt anyone before.\u201d In that moment, Peretz remembered the horrors he had seen the Germans inflict on the Jews. He immediately made up his mind and stabbed the soldier, who screamed in pain. Gunshots rang out and whistled over his head. Peretz opened the door, jumped from the moving train, and landed in a ditch. He hit his head and lost consciousness.<\/p>\n

A survivor who found life in the forest<\/strong>
\nWhen he came to, the train was long gone. He crawled away from the tracks and entered the forest, wandering for days\u2014hungry and weak. Eventually, in the forests of Belarus, he came across the Bielski brothers\u2019 partisan group and joined their ranks.<\/p>\n

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The partisan group, from Chorshati\u2019s artwork | Photo: Rega Shel Chochma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the war, Chorshati immigrated to Israel aboard the Birya<\/em>, an illegal immigrant ship, and joined the Irgun. During the War of Independence, he served as a deputy company commander in the Givati Brigade and fought in the battle for Metzudat Yoav, where he was wounded. Later, he established the fire station in Eilat. At the age of 75, he began painting his wartime memories and, with the help of friends, published a book of his drawings titled Daring, Nerve, and Luck: How I Survived<\/em>. His original paintings are displayed at Yad Vashem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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