Given name: Pinchas Family name: Kartin

Since he was a boy he was involved with the communist movement. An active anti-Nazi fighter, fought in Spain. In 1940 and 1941 in the Soviet Union. At the end of 1941, when a decision about the creation of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) was made, he was sent with others to Poland and delegated by the Central Committee to the Warsaw ghetto, where he was to organise PPR units and People’s Guard (Gwardia Ludowa) detachments. He becomes the first secretary of the Polish Workers' Party ghetto unit. The commander of the Anti-fascist block combat organisation in the Warsaw ghetto. Officially he was the collaborator of the Centos orphanage and lived there for some time.