Mordechai Anielewicz was the Polish leader of the Jewish Combat Organization during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish resistance movement during the Second World War. Anielewicz inspired
Mordechai Anielewicz
Monument to the Ghetto Heroes (Aniołek is in the center, wielding a hand grenade)
1944 Aerial photograph of the destroyed Warsaw Ghetto
Warsaw Ghetto in flames. Photo taken in the end of April 1943 from an overpass which connect Żoliborz district with Warsaw's downtown
Marek Edelman was a Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. As a Jew, Edelman was the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Long before his death, he was the last one to
Mordechai Anielewicz
…Janeiro, Brazil. On the same year, he was posthumously awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by the President of Poland Andrzej Duda. Edelman, Marek, and Krall, Hanna. Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation With Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Henry…
Edelman at around the time of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Varsovian square named after Edelman
Mural in memory of Marek Edelman at 9b Nowolipki Street in Warsaw. "The most important is life, and when there is life, the most important is freedom. And then we give our life for freedom..."
Mural of Edelman on a ul. Karmelicka 26 just west of the Anielewicz Bunker memorial. "Hate is easy, love requires effort and sacrifice."