Given name: Kazik Family name: Ratajzer

During the uprising he fought on the territory of the brushmakers' 'shop' in Hanoch Gutman's group. On 20 April he defused a mine when the Germans approached the brushmakers' territory. On 1 May 1943, together with Zygmunt Frudrych he was sent to the representative of the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) Command on the 'Aryan side', Icchak Cukierman. He went through the sewers in order to organise the way out for the other fighters from the ghetto. He returned to the ghetto on 8 May, and found nobody there. He met the fighters in the sewers on his way back to the 'Aryan side'. On 10 May he transported in a lorry over 30 insurgents to a wood in Lomianki. He hid in Warsaw and was a Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) messenger. He took part in the Warsaw uprising and fought in the Old Town in the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) unit. After the fall of the Old Town he led the insurgents out to Zoliborz through the sewers. After the war he organised Bricha (post-war illegal emigration of Jews to Israel) - emigration of European Jews to Palestine, where he came in November 1946. He lives in Jerusalem.