Given name: Szymon (Szmul) Family name: Melon (2)

(1)

combat outfit commander; 21 April 1943 cobat at Walowa Street No. 4, 4 May at Swietojerska Street No. 34; 19 May during an expedition to a distribution phone box - Gesia Street, corner of Nalewek Street; 4 June he sets off with a group of several people in order to establish contact with the Polish underground; he finished 7 grades, comes from a family of fur industrialists; for his self-earned money he bought weapon at a work detail and moved to the ghetto, he also persuaded friend to buy weapon. Against his parents' will he left the bunker to fight in the uprising.

(2)

pseudonym Szmulak, a member of Haszomer Hacair, one of the commander of the last combat units of so-called ruin dwellers ('gruzowcy'). The group had a hideout in Swietojerska Street No. 34, flat 36 in mid-May 1943, next a part of them moved somewhere with Krenski's group, the rest scattered around.

(1)

well-built, full of energy and optimism

(1) 58,83,84,87,94,99,105, (2) 24,25,29