Marek Edelman

✶January 1, 1919

†October 2, 2009

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Marek Edelman was a Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. As a Jew, Edelman was the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Long before his death, he was the last one to stay in the Polish People's Republic despite harassment by the Polish United Workers' Party authorities.

(1919–2009) Jewish resistance member

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