Given name: Henoch Family name: Gutman (3)

(1)

He took part in the work of Dror's kibbutz in the Warsaw ghetto at Dzielna Street No. 34. He was sent by the organisation to Hrubieszow; he participated in setting a kibbutz in Werbkowice. During the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto, he was a commander of the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB); gravely wounded on 2 May 1943, he couldn't join the group of fighters, who left the ghetto through the sewers. He died with his girlfriend, Fejcza Rabow.

(2)

Activist of the Zionist movement, Dror's member. After the outbreak of the war, he arrived in the Warsaw ghetto. He was active in the commune at Dzielna Street No. 34, he conducted underground seminars and organised self-defence groups in the ghetto in Hrubieszow. In August 1942, he took part in unsuccessful attempt on policeman Szmerling's life. He participated in the first fights in the Warsaw ghetto in January 1943. In the uprising, he was in charge of a combat group in brushmakers' shop, which was generally under Marek Edelman's command. On 2 May, he was gravely wounded in fight for a bunker in Franciszkanska Street No. 30. He didn't manage to go through the sewers - he stayed in the ghetto with his girlfriend, Fejcze (Cipora) Rabow. Details of his death are not known.

(3)

Commander of one of ZOB's (Jewish Fighting Organization) units at Walowa Street No. 6 opposite the brush factory.

(1)

biography according to the footnote from 'Last Letters from the Shoah'

(1)

Ringelblum's Archive; Last Letters from the Shoah

(1) [81], (2) 95,233,234, (3) 186