Baruch Shub Yad Vashem mourns the passing of Baruch Shub, a Holocaust survivor and partisan during WWII. Shub served as a member of the Yad Vashem Directorate and the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous Among the Nations. Shub was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, the second child out of six in a Chassidic family. During the war, he used his degree in mechanical engineering to work for the Germans in various locations. In March 1941, his beloved sister, Zipporah, was murdered in an aktion alongside 840 other Jews, many of them children. Shub, together with other Jewish youths, established an underground resistance movement in the ghetto but were forced to abandon their activities due to pressure from their frightened families. Later on, he enlisted in the Russian Army as a paratrooper. He was part of the Russian forces that liberated Vilnius in 1944, where he learned that his entire family had been murdered during the Shoah.