Following the events in the ghetto of the 1st of September 1943, the Staff Command of the FPO reluctantly decided not to begin a fight to the death. Among their many concerns was further endangering the inhabitants of the ghetto. Instead they began to gradually send their members to fight in the forests.
![Partisan Rachel Rudnitzki together with other armed partisans in the streets of Vilna during the liberation of the city.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/3271_13.jpg?itok=__gnSRXj)
Yad Vashem Photo Archives 3271/13
Courtesy of The State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF)
![Partisan Rachel Rudnitzki together with other armed partisans in the streets of Vilna during the liberation of the city.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/3271_13.jpg?itok=o6R0YWC-)
![Partisans: Father and son, the Meilikowski family](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/3380_405.jpg?itok=aIUMuvKH)
Yad Vashem Photo Archives 3380/405
![Partisans: Father and son, the Meilikowski family](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/3380_405.jpg?itok=LBgTjJm5)
![Chana Azkut, partisan medic and member of the F.P.O. in Vilna](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/3271_78.jpg?itok=PuacKWw-)
Yad Vashem Photo Archives 3271/78
Courtesy of The State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF)
![Chana Azkut, partisan medic and member of the F.P.O. in Vilna](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/3271_78.jpg?itok=k0oi4bcV)
![Armed partisans Abba Kovner (left) and Shmerke Kaczerginski in Joniškis, Lithuania, 1944](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/3380_433.jpg?itok=7zqcm6Yo)
Yad Vashem Photo Archives, 3380/433
![Armed partisans Abba Kovner (left) and Shmerke Kaczerginski in Joniškis, Lithuania, 1944](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/3380_433.jpg?itok=S8jFKlf0)
![Jewish partisans after liberation. Vilna, 14 July 1944](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/partisans_0.jpg?itok=rNAQw2MY)
Standing, from left: Elchanan Magid, Jacob Prener, Bluma Markowicz (killed by a German air attack two days after the photo was taken), Abba Kovner, Ruzka Korczak, Leib Szapirstein, Vitka Kempner
Below, from left: Gershon, Pesach Mizerecz, Motl Szames
The photo was taken by a military reporter from Moscow, after the fighting on the streets of besieged Vilna abated.
Yad Vashem Photo Archives CO5/121
![Jewish partisans after liberation. Vilna, 14 July 1944](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/partisans_0.jpg?itok=HS-ImUco)
![Jewish partisans who fought in the Rudniki Forest, in the city center after liberation. Vilna, 14 July 1944](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/120EO9_.jpg?itok=oBmsPHM3)
Top row, middle: Abba Kovner
The photo was taken by a military reporter from Moscow, after the fighting on the streets of besieged Vilna abated.
Yad Vashem Photo Archives EO9/120
![Jewish partisans who fought in the Rudniki Forest, in the city center after liberation. Vilna, 14 July 1944](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/120EO9_.jpg?itok=7CMlx1PN)
![After liberation, partisan Boris Yocha reenacts how he planted dynamite on a railroad track near Vilna to sabotage the Germans.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/153CO7_.jpg?itok=YzbYKPz-)
Yad Vashem Photo Archives CO7/153
![After liberation, partisan Boris Yocha reenacts how he planted dynamite on a railroad track near Vilna to sabotage the Germans.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/153CO7_.jpg?itok=yfe7Qgzp)
![Partisans who fought in the Rudniki Forest. From left: Joseph Harmatz, Valentina Fashbelska and Abraham Szabrinski](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/3883_3668.jpg?itok=rHDNb4G4)
Yad Vashem Photo Archives 3883/3668
![Partisans who fought in the Rudniki Forest. From left: Joseph Harmatz, Valentina Fashbelska and Abraham Szabrinski](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/3883_3668.jpg?itok=lsv_vk0B)
![Partisan David Pink in the street in Vilna](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/3271_28.jpg?itok=IbjECYmY)
Yad Vashem Photo Archives 3271/28
Courtesy of The Central Government Archives, Moscow
![Partisan David Pink in the street in Vilna](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/3271_28.jpg?itok=LxOAeSvY)
![David Labkowski (1906-1991): "Partisans in the Forest", 1956](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/art 173_3 crop.jpg?itok=tHuf7ePR)
Gouache on paper
Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum
![David Labkowski (1906-1991): "Partisans in the Forest", 1956](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/art 173_3 crop.jpg?itok=lDkC9BkT)