A Hero with a Remorseful Conscience: The Dramatic Fate of "Red Paul"
"Perhaps if we hadn't begun this work, the remnants of Jewry would have survived, instead of perishing in the fires and bullets," wrote "Rudy Paweł," a fighter of the Jewish Military Union, a few months after the end of fighting in the Warsaw Ghetto. He was consumed by remorse and suicidal thoughts. During the uprising, he lost loved ones and dozens of comrades-in-arms. He himself survived only by a miracle – he eluded raids several times. On April 25, 1943, a hearse appeared three times in the sleepy Michalin near Warsaw. […]