Black and white copy of a passport. Printed document filled by hand. Lithuanian. Features a headshot of a man on the left side.
Black and white copy of a passport. Printed document filled by hand. Lithuanian. Features a headshot of a man on the left side. Black and white photocopy of handwritten document. 2 pages, rectangular formart vertical orientation. One to the left and another on the right.

FPO Documents

1940s. Photocopies of documents

Documents from the United Partisan Organization, also known as the FPO. The FPO was a group of resistance fighters that formed in the Vilna Ghetto in January 1942. It brought together scattered members of other youth movements to form a larger collective, organized around the principle of armed underground action. The first image is a forged Aryan passport of a partisan called Isaac Mackiewisz. The second image is the statute of the FPO. The third image is a certificate from the partisan division attesting that David Pintchov was commander of the Jewish division.

Digitization of these artifacts has been made possible by the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project.

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Unless otherwise stated, all artifacts featured in the exhibition come from the YIVO's Archives and Library collections. Digitization of many of these materials has been made possible by the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project.

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