On this day, 12 May 1918, Yakov Batyuk was born – one of the leaders of underground anti-fascist communist resistance in North-East Ukraine. A blind person, he organised an underground anti-fascist group out of local workers and led many effective operations against Nazi troops. In 1942 he organised an underground anti-fascist printing house, distributing thousands of leaflets. Later he supplied weapons to partisans by stealing them from Nazi warehouses. In 1943, along with his sister, he managed to derail a train in North-East Ukraine. Unfortunately in August 1943 his entire group was arrested by the Gestapo and after days of torture 26 anti-fascists were executed, including Batyuk.
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