
People of the Ghetto


18.10.2021
Mary Berg (10.10.1924–04.2013)
the author of “The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing up in the Warsaw Ghetto”

01.10.2021
Marek Edelman (01.01.1919–02.10.2009)
cardiologist, last commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, participant in the Warsaw Uprising, Bund member, Knight of the Order of the White Eagle

28.09.2021
Hersz Berliński (1908–27.09.1944)
activist of Poalej Syjon-Lewica and the resistance movement during World War II, member of the Jewish Combat Organization, participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and…

24.09.2021
Zdzisław Askanas (01.06.1910–25.09.1974)
cardiologist, professor of medical sciences, founder of the Warsaw Academic School of Cardiology; defender of the Modlin Fortress, underground activist, participant in the Warsaw Uprising

21.09.2021
Elżbieta Ettinger (19.09.1925–12.03.2005)
novelist, literature professor, author of a biographies, member of the resistance movement during World War II

17.09.2021
Anastazy Matywiecki (17.09.1914–26.08.1944)
lawyer, poet, social activist, participant in the Warsaw Uprising

14.09.2021
Marek Abraham Rudnicki (25.01.1927–14.09.2004)
graphic artist, book illustrator, caricaturist

10.09.2021
Józef Kapłan (1913–11.09.1942)
a resistance movement activist, member and co-founder of the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB) and the Antifascist Bloc, associate of Oneg Shabbat, manager of Ha-Shomer ha-Tsair


31.08.2021
Kalonimus Kalman Szapiro (20.05.1889–03.11.1943)
tzaddik, rabbi of Piaseczno, one of the rabbis of the Warsaw ghetto, innovative educator, expert and commentator on the Torah