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Maria Ajzensztadt (1922–1942; often referred to by a diminutive of her first name Marysia) was a Polish singer, who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
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Calel (Calek) Perechodnik (8 September 1916 – October 1944) was a diarist who joined the Jewish Ghetto Police in the Otwock Ghetto during the Nazi German occupation of Poland. His wartime diaries were ...
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Józef Klotz (2 January 1900–1941) was a Polish footballer who played centre-half. He scored the first-ever goal for the Poland national football team. He was killed by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto in ...
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Tova (Tosia) Altman (born 24 August 1918 in Włocławek – May, 1943 in Warsaw, Poland) organized underground structures of Hashomer Hatzair and worked with Mordechai Anielewicz as a member of the ŻOB during ...
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Adam Czerniaków (30 November 1880 – 23 July 1942) was a Polish engineer and senator who was head of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Council (Judenrat) during World War II. He committed suicide on 23 July 1942 ...
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Mordechai Anielewicz (1919 – 8 May 1943) was the leader of Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (English: Jewish Combat Organization), also known as ŻOB, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from January to May 1943 ...
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Miriam Orleska (Yiddish: מרים אָרלעסקאָ; 1900 in Warsaw – 1943 in Treblinka extermination camp) was an actress in the Vilna Yiddish theatre, best known for her role as Leah in S. Ansky's The Dybbuk.
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Alfred Nossig (18 April 1864–22 February 1943) was a Polish sculptor, musician, writer, and public activist. During World War II he was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto where he became a member of the ...
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Henryk Szaro (1900 – 1942) was a Polish screenwriter and film director. He was born Henoch Szapiro, of Jewish background. He became a leading Polish director of the late 1920 and 1930s. Szaro was killed ...
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Zygmunt Białostocki (15 August 1897 – c. 1942) was a Polish Jewish musician. He composed many popular Polish pre-war songs, and worked as conductor and a première pianist in Warsaw between the World Wars ...
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Abraham Blum (also known as Abrasza Blum) (1905 in Wilno, Vilna Governorate – May 1943 in Warsaw) was Polish-Jewish socialist activist, one of the leaders of the Bund in the Warsaw Ghetto and a ...
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Dovid Bornsztain (1876 – 17 November 1942), also spelled Borenstein, Bornstein and Bernstein, known as the Chasdei Dovid, was the third Rebbe of the Sochatchov Hasidic dynasty. He succeeded his father ...
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Michał Klepfisz (Warsaw, 17 April 1913 – 20 April 1943, Warsaw) was a chemical engineer, activist for the Bund, and member of the Jewish Morgenstern sports organization. During World War II he belonged ...
Allegedly officer:Polish Army/commander of the Jewish Military Union Żydowski Związek Wojskowy (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising)
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Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum (some sources give Mieczysław or Mordechaj as his second name, and Appelbaum as his surname), nom de guerre "Kowal" ("Blacksmith") (?-4/28/1943) was allegedly an officer in the Polish ...
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Paweł Frenkiel (sometimes also Frenkel, Hebrew: פאוול פרנקל; 1920–1943) was a Polish Army officer and a Jewish youth leader in Warsaw and one of the senior commanders of the Jewish Military Union ...
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Rabbi Menachem Ziemba (1883–1943) (Hebrew: מנחם זמבה) was a distinguished pre-World War II Rabbi, known as a Talmudic genius and prodigy. He is known to be fluent in all of Talmud as well as many ...
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Gershon-Yitskhok Leibovich Sirota (Russian: Гершон-Ицхок Лейбович Сирота; 1874 – 19 April 1943) was one of the leading cantors of Europe during the "Golden Age of Hazzanut" (cantorial music), so ...