Mordechai Anielewicz
Persons, originating from Poland

Mordechai Anielewicz
Born: 1919 in Wyszków, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Died: May 8, 1943 in Warsaw
He was the leader of the Jewish Combat Organization (Polish: Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB) during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish resistance movement during the Second World War. Anielewicz inspired further rebellions in both ghettos and extermination camps with his leadership. His character was engraved as a symbol of courage and sacrifice, and was a major figure of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. In July 1944, Anielewicz was posthumously awarded the Cross of Valour by the Polish government in exile.
In December 1943, kibbutz Yad Mordechai in Israel was renamed
after him and had a monument erected in his memory. -- >

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