Given name: Tosia Family name: Altman

  • YES
  • Female
  • Tosia
  • Altman
  • 1918-08-24
  • 1943-05
  • at the end of May
  • Włocławek
  • Warszawa

  • Born on 24 August 1918 in Wloclawek.Co-founder and director of the underground Hashomer Ha-Cair during the occupation. Drove the length and breadth of the divided country. Delegated to the 'Aryan side' during the forming of ZOB (the Jewish Fighting Organization). Stuck in the ghetto during the April uprising. Wounded in the head and legs during a German attack at the fighters' bunker at Mila Street No. 18 in May 1943. Got out through the sewers. Severely burnt on 24 May in a fire at the film membrane factory at 11 Listopada Street No. 10 in Praga. Caught by Germans and sent to a hospital, where she died after an extremely painful agony.

  • activists, youth

  • Zivia (Cywia) Lubetkin's memoirs. Record of the testimony from the occupation period of one of the most outstanding figures of Jewish resistance movement and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After coming to Palestine after the war, she wanted to preserve the memory of the events she took part in; she told people in kibbutzim how the Holocaust looked like, what people from her circle did, with no chance to succeed, to prevent it. The description of the Uprising is the main and the most shocking part of the memoirs. They are generally considered one of the most important sources of the uprising's history and were published earlier in Hebrew, Yiddish, English and Russian.

  • 70, 130, 143-144, 160