Given name: Margalit Family name: Landau (2)

  • (1, 2) YES
  • (1, 2) Female
  • (1) Margalit , (2) Emilia,Margalit
  • (1) Landau , (2) Landau
  • (1) Emilka, (2) Margalit
  • (1) 1943-01-18, (2) 1943-01-18
  • (2) 1926
  • (2) Warszawa
  • (1, 2) Warszawa
  • (1, 2) No information
  • (1)

    she was very active in the ghetto undergound; belonged to Haszomer Hacair. She was in the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) since the First Action. When on 18 January 1943 the Second Action broke out, Emilka fought in the streets of the ghetto in the first ZOB unit which engaged in open combat. She was the first Jewish woman who threw grenades at SS-men and German gendarmes in the ghetto; died in combat

    (2)

    she was a member of Haszomer Hacair. 29 October 1942 she took part in execution of death penalty on Lejkin; died 18 January in Zamenhofa Street during the first fights in the ghetto

    • (1) youth
    • (2) activists
  • (1) 296, (2) 86, 88,238