
People of the Ghetto


05.02.2025
Leon (Lejb) "Arie" Rodal (29.01.1913 – 6.05.1943/27.04.1943)
Journalist, commander of the Jewish Military Union, hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

30.08.2024
Tosia Altman (24.08.1918/9 – 05.1943)
A scout, Jewish resistance activist, member of the leadership of Ha-Szomer ha-Cair, and fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto.

13.06.2024
Hersz Wasser (13.06.1910 – 1980)
The Secretary of the Ringelblum Archive, one of the three surviving members of the Oneg Shabbat group, activist of Poale Zion Left, Chairman of the…

18.01.2023
Helena Merenholc (15.03.1907–19.01.1997)
children’s psychologist, pedagogue, radio director. During WWII, a courier of Jewish National Committee and a collaborator of “Żegota”

22.11.2022
Vladka Meed (Feigele Peltel) (29.12.1921 – 22.11.2012)
Community activist, member of the Jewish Labour Bund and the Jewish Combat Organization

01.04.2022
Mieczysław Centnerszwer (10.07.1874–27.03.1944)
chemist, scientist, university lecturer, professor at the Riga University of Technology, the University of Latvia and the University of Warsaw

08.02.2022
Ziuta Hartman (5.10.1922–19.05.2015)
member of the Jewish Military Union, hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising


17.12.2021
Baruch Spigel (04.10.1919–09.05.2013)
hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, participant of the Warsaw Uprising

08.12.2021
Lejb Rotblat (14.10.1918–08.05.1943)
Zionist activist, associated with the Ha-Noar Ha-Cijoni and Akiba organizations; activist in the Jewish resistance movement in the Warsaw Ghetto, member of the Jewish Combat…