Given name: Szmul Family name: Bresław

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  • Male
  • Szmul
  • Bresław
  • 1920-03-20
  • 1942-09-03
  • Moskwa
  • Warszawa

  • Born on 20 March 1920 in Moscow. Lived in Warsaw. Escaped to Vilna when the war broke out. Returned to Warsaw in January 1940. Co-founder of Haszomer Hacair in the German occupation area. For some time head of the youth activity in the Radom district. Edited his organisation's underground press. Co-founder of the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB). Co-organiser of setting the deserted Jewish houses on fire during the great action. Killed during the great action when he was walking to find out about Josef Kaplan's lot. His comrades buried him on 'Skra's sports field near the cemetery at Gesia Street.

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  • 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.

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