Given name: Benjamin Family name: Wald

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  • Male
  • Benjamin
  • Wald
  • 1920-00-00
  • 1943-05
  • in early May
  • Warszawa
  • Warszawa

  • Born in 1920 in Warsaw. A Dror activist during the German occupation. Commandant of a unit in Schultz's and Toebbens' shops. During the fights in January 1943 defended the houses at Zamenhofa Street No. 56/58 and Mila Street No. 34. During the April uprising attacked an SS unit with hand-grenades at Leszno Street, outside the ghetto. Died at the beginning of May 1943 leading a unit during an attempt to get to the Aryan side near the canals at Ogrodowa Street.

  • activists

  • Zivia (Cywia) Lubetkin's memoirs. Record of the testimony from the occupation period of one of the most outstanding figures of Jewish resistance movement and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After coming to Palestine after the war, she wanted to preserve the memory of the events she took part in; she told people in kibbutzim how the Holocaust looked like, what people from her circle did, with no chance to succeed, to prevent it. The description of the Uprising is the main and the most shocking part of the memoirs. They are generally considered one of the most important sources of the uprising's history.

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