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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 ghettos and ...
Led by Mordechai Anielewicz they waited for the appropriate signal, then stepped out of formation, and fought the Nazis with small arms. The column scattered and news of the ŻZW and ŻOB action quickly spread throughout the ghetto.
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.
The Anielewicz Bunker ( Polish: Bunkier Anielewicza ), also known as the Anielewicz Mount ( Polish: Kopiec Anielewicza) was the headquarters and hidden shelter of the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB), a Jewish resistance group in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland during the Nazi German occupation of World War II .
Nationality. Polish. 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 ...
With the advent of World War II and the Holocaust, members of Hashomer Hatzair focused their attention on resistance against the Nazis. Mordechai Anielewicz, the leader of Hashomer Hatzair's Warsaw branch, became head of the Jewish Combat Organization and one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Life Mira Fuchrer was born to Jewish parents in Warsaw in 1920. She was active in Hashomer Hatzair youth organization in the interwar period where she met the future commander of ŻOB Mordechai Anielewicz. During the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland at the onset of World War II, Mira and Mordechai got together and fled to Wilno in northeastern part of prewar Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) in ...
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.