Given name: Edward (Aleksander) Family name: Fondamiński

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  • Male
  • Edward (Aleksander)
  • Fondamiński
  • 1910-00-00
  • 1943
  • Warszawa

  • An engineer. A Polish Workers' Party (PPR) activist in the Warsaw ghetto. After Josef Finkelsztajn-Lewartowski's deportation to Treblinka took his post as the PPR secretary in the ghetto. A member of the Jewish Coordinating Committee. Died in a bunker at Mila Street No. 18 at the age of 33.

  • activists

  • 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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