A Hero: Yitzhak Zuckerman

Polish Jewish leader Yitzhak Zuckerman realized early the implications of Nazi deportation of Jews. In 1942 he created the Jewish Fighting Organization (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ŻOB) to meet the threat with armed resistance, and to obtain black-market and donated weapons. During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943, the ZOB smuggled weapons into the ghetto and helped Jews escape. One of the few survivors of that uprising, Zuckerman also participated in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. He emigrated to Israel after the war, and later testified at the Eichmann trial in 1961. Zuckerman was born December 13, 1915.