Mordechai Anielewicz
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Mordechai Anielewicz was the leader of the Jewish Combat Organization 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.
Monument to the Ghetto Heroes (Aniołek is in the center, wielding a hand grenade)
Warsaw Ghetto in flames. Photo taken in the end of April 1943 from an overpass which connect Żoliborz district with Warsaw's downtown
Anielewicz and girlfriend Mira Fuchrer in the destroyed Warsaw Ghetto (a painting by Shimon Garmize)
Wyszków, Wyszków County
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Wyszków is a town in eastern Poland with 26,500 inhabitants (2018). It is the capital of Wyszków County in Masovian Voivodeship.
Palace, built 1780
Unveiling of the monument to Poles murdered by the Russians on August 17, 1920 (1921)
Monument to Mordechaj Anielewicz