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Mordechai Anielewicz. Mordechai Anielewicz ( Hebrew: מרדכי אנילביץ'; 1919 – 8 May 1943) was the leader of the Jewish Combat Organization ( Polish: Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB) during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish resistance movement during the Second World War. Anielewicz inspired further rebellions in both ...
Yale University, honorary doctorate [ 1] Varsovian square named after Edelman. Marek Edelman ( Yiddish: מאַרעק עדעלמאַן; 1919/1922 – October 2, 2009) was a Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. Edelman was the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Known for. Head of Judenrat, Łódź Ghetto. Chaim Mordechaj Rumkowski (February 27, 1877 – August 28, 1944) was the head of the Jewish Council of Elders in the Łódź Ghetto appointed by Nazi Germany during the German occupation of Poland . Rumkowski accrued much power by transforming the ghetto into an industrial base manufacturing war ...
Mira Fuchrer ( Hebrew: מירה פוכרר; 1920 – 8 May 1943) was a Polish Jewish activist of the Jewish resistance movement in the Warsaw Ghetto during the occupation of Poland in World War II; member of the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB), and resistance fighter during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. Surrounded by the Germans and ...
The Jewish Combat Organization (Polish: Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB; Yiddish: ייִדישע קאַמף אָרגאַניזאַציע Yidishe Kamf Organizatsie; often translated to English as the Jewish Fighting Organization) was a World War II resistance movement in occupied Poland, which was instrumental in organizing and launching the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. [1]
Monument to the guerrilla fighters of the Mordechai Anielewicz Unit of the People's Guard (Polish: Pomnik partyzantów oddziału GL im. Mordechaja Anielewicza ) is a monument located in the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw , commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto insurgents who were executed in Krawcowizna by the Germans.
Hashomer Hatzair [1] (Hebrew: הַשׁוֹמֵר הַצָעִיר, IPA: [haʃoˈmeʁ hatsaˈʔiʁ], The Young Guard) is a Labor Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary, and it was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 Mandatory Palestine (see Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party).
With her good education, she immediately adopted an important role in kibbutz life. She lived in Vilna with her partner, Moshe Kopito who himself was a close friend of Mordechai Anielewicz; the two men had joined the movement together much earlier. On 22 February 1941, Sarenka's daughter Maya was born. [6]