Given name: Michał Family name: Klepfisz (3)

  • (1, 2, 3) YES
  • (1, 2, 3) Male
  • (1) Michał , (2) Michał , (3) Michał
  • (1) Klepfisz , (2) Klepfisz , (3) Klepfisz
  • (1) Tadeusz Metzner
  • (3) 1913-04-17
  • (1) 1943-04-22, (2) 1943-04-20, (3) 1943
  • (1) 17 April
  • (3) Warszawa
  • (2, 3) Warszawa
    • (1) No
  • (1, 2) No information, (3) From Warsaw
    • (1, 3) Jewish
    • (1) good
    • (1, 3) higher
    • (1) on surface
  • (1)

    A young engineer, for many years worked for the Bund, an activist of a Jewish sports organisation - Morgenstern. Escorted Wladka (a messenger) to the 'Aryan side'. Lived with the Machaj family of four at Gornoslaska Street No. 3. After Jurek Wilner had been arrested, he took over his responsibilities on the 'Aryan side' (buying weapons for the ghetto). As a courier he transported weapons, dispatches, letters and underground press to the ghetto many times. In January 1943 he constructed his first incendiary bomb - a bottle. Arrested on the 'Aryan side' before the Uprising and sent to the ghetto, escaped from a transport to Treblinka. Died during the Uprising because he covered a machine gun with his own body so that others could go through.

    (2)

    An engineer. His aim was to get as many weapons as possible for the fighter in the ghetto. He brought weapons from the 'Aryan side' and produced explosives in secret workshops that he created. When the Uprising broke out he fought in Jurek Blones' detachment. Died in combat on the second day of the Uprising.

    (3)

    Urodzony 17.04.1913 r. w Warszawie. Inżynier. Działacz Bundu. Członek ŻOB. Działał po aryjskiej stronie. Między styczniem a kwietniem 1943 r. organizował transport broni do getta. Pomocnik Ariela Wilnera. Opracował przepis na mieszankę zapalającą. Zginął w starciu z Niemcami w dniach powstania kwietniowego na terenie szopu szczotkarzy. W marcu 1944 r. został odznaczony przez rząd polski w Londynie krzyżem Virtuti Militari.

    Bywał w mieszkaniu Eugenii Wąsowskiej przy ul. Żurawiej 24/4, w którym odbywały się spotkania członków Stronnictwa Demokratycznego, działał tam też główny sekretariat Rady Pomocy Żydom, CK Bund i KK.

    Pomógł wyprowadzić z getta córeczki bliźniaczki Feli Blit.

    • (1) Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943, in the ghetto
    • (1) social/communal, private life / daily life
    • (1) activists, housing
    • (2) engineer
    • (3) activists, children, communication, escaping the ghetto
    • (3) Jewish underground movement
  • (1)

    Tall, fair-haired, blue eyes - only his nose was 'somewhat Jewish', which gave his identity away to smugglers. The arrest might have been caused by Machaj's denunciation.

  • (1) 97,103,106,115,130,146,160,177, (2) 151,233,, (3) 141,142,157