| People of the Ghetto

Ludwik Hirszfeld (05.08.1884–07.03.1954)

Physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, founder of the Polish school of immunological theory, a new field of science – seroanthropology and the foundations of the science of groups

Klara Segałowicz (25/08/1897–1943)

A theater and film actress associated with the Yiddish scene. She was born in Kiev to a family of a doctor and a midwife. In 1913, she settled

Michał Rozenfeld (1916–02.09.1943)

member of the Jewish Combat Organization, hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Before the war, he studied psychology at the University of Warsaw and was also

Michał Klepfisz (17/04/1913–20/04/1943)

chemical engineer, activist of the Bund and the Jewish sports organization Morgenstern, member of the Jewish Combat Organization, hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Gustawa Jarecka (23.12.1908–18.01.1943)

writer and prose writer, translator, Polish language teacher She was born in Kalisz as the daughter of Moszek, a merchant from Zagórów, and a woman from

Alina Margolis-Edelman (18/04/1922–22/03/2008)

doctor and social worker, active campaigner for the protection of children's lives in armed conflicts. She was born in Łódź. She came from a family

Adina Blady-Szwajger (1917-1993)

Pediatrician, doctor at the children's hospital in the Warsaw Ghetto, liaison for the Jewish Combat Organization. She was born in Warsaw. Her father

Leo Belmont (March 8, 1865–October 19, 1941)

essayist, poet, prose writer, expert and translator of French and Russian literature, co-founder of the Polish Esperanto Association. He was born as

Emanuel Ringelblum (November 21, 1900–March 10, 1944)

historian, educator and social and political activist, known primarily as the creator of the underground Warsaw Ghetto Archive, called

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