
People of the Ghetto


17.03.2025
Helena Ostrowska (1902-1944)
Opera singer, mezzo-soprano. She performed at the Femina Theatre and as a soloist at concerts with the Jewish Symphony Orchestra.

04.03.2025
Menachem Linder (1911-1942)
Talented scholar and social activist, founder of JIKOR (Jewish Cultural Organization in the Ghetto), collaborator of Oneg Shabbat, murdered on "Bloody Friday" in 1942.

14.02.2025
Jonas Turkow (15.02.1898 – 1.12.1988)
Actor, director, writer. A prominent figure in the pre-war Yiddish theater. Holocaust survivor.

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