Given name: Debora Family name: Baran

  • YES
  • Female
  • Debora
  • Baran
  • 1920-00-00
  • 1943-05-03
  • Kowel
  • Warszawa

  • Born in Kowel. A member of Dror and the kibbutz at Dzielna Street No. 34. A member of ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organisation) in Warsaw. Fought in Henoch Gutman's unit at the brushmakers' shop and in the central ghetto. Killed in combat on 3 May 1943 at the age of 23. Stood out for her devotion to the cause and for her beauty.

  • 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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