Mordechai Anielewicz

✶January 1, 1919

†May 8, 1943

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About their life

Mordechai Anielewicz was the Polish leader of the Jewish Combat Organization during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish resistance movement during the Second World War. Anielewicz inspired further rebellions in both ghettos and extermination camps with his leadership. His character was engraved as a symbol of courage and sacrifice, and was a major figure of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.

leader of the anti-Nazi Jewish Combat Organization (1919–1943)

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