Given name: Itka Family name: Wertheim-Korniańska

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  • Female
  • Itka
  • Wertheim-Korniańska
  • Wertheim
  • 1975
  • Lublin
  • Izrael

  • Born in Lublin. Josef Kornianski's wife. When the war broke out she was in a kibbutz in Dabrowa Gornicza. After she came back to Lublin she was a Dror messenger between the provincial units and the Lublin District Council. At the beginning of 1941 deported to Slovakia. She made it to Erec Israel through Hungary. A member of the Dafna kibbutz. Died in 1975. Her memoirs were published in Josef Kornianski's book 'Chaluc missions' ('Misje chalucowe').

  • 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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