Miriam Hajnsdorf (1913-1943)
Jewish resistance activist, central figure of the Hashomer Hatzair movement, and heroine of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Miriam Hajnsdorf (Ainsdorf, Heinsdorf). Born in Warsaw, she spent most of her childhood in Lublin. In 1929, at the age of 16, she returned to the capital with her parents. It was then that she joined the Zionist and leftist Hashomer Hatzair organization. She participated in the pioneering Hashomer training in the city of Slonim, which was intended to prepare her for emigration to Palestine. The outbreak […]