Given name: Szmuel Family name: Bresław (4)

(1)

He came from an educated family with Zionist traditions. From 1925 he lived in Warsaw. After the outbreak of war he went to Vilnius. He returned to Warsaw in 1940. A columnist, he dealt with research concerning the attitude of youth in the Warsaw ghetto. One of the leaders of Haszomer Hacair , the editor of the organization's underground printings. A member of the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB). He died after being arrested (while carrying out a mission connected with founding the place where Jozef Kaplan, who was arrested the same day, was taken from) in Gesia Street. He attacked with a knife an armed German sitting in a car. Burried on 4 September 1942 in the Jewish cemetery in Gesia Street.

(2)

On 28 July 1942, during the organisation's meeting he was chosen to be a member of a resistance movement command. According to engineer Szenfeld he was the ghetto's Messiah.

(3)

In September 1939 he left Warsaw and went to the East. He reached Vilnius. After some time he returned to Warsaw. The editor of almost all printings printed by Haszomer Hacair in the Warsaw ghetto, especially those Polish. He was a gifted columnist and editor. He also wrote for Ringelblum's Archive. He was murdered by a Gestapo agent on 3 September 1942 in the street, while he was running to meet his friends, in order to rescue Jozef Kaplan, who was arrested. He was 22.

(4)

He took part in a He-Chaluc meeting, during the first days of the Great Action, where resistance was discussed. He claimed that 'the Germans should be attacked with knives, iron bars, daggers and everything in hand, the crowd should rouse and get to the 'Aryan side''

(4)

Rufeisen-Schuepper, Helena; Pozegnanie Milej 18. Wspomnienia laczniczki Zydowskiej Organizacji Bojowej (A Farewell in Mila Street No. 18. Memoires of Messenger of the Jewish Fighting Organisation)

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