The Ordeal of the "Rubble Workers." Leon Najberg and the Last Ghetto Insurgents
For several months after the fall of the uprising, Jewish survival groups continued to operate in the Warsaw Ghetto, in shelters and ruined tenement buildings. They languished for weeks, tormented by hunger and hunted down by the Germans, who liquidated them one by one. A harrowing chronicle of these events was written "on the spot" by one of the "rubble workers," Leon Najberg, then only 17. He was one of the lucky few who managed to escape the ruined district alive. The third week of the ghetto uprising was drawing to a close. On the day, the Germans […]