Mordecai Anielewicz and the Warsaw Uprising, 81 Years Ago

 Born in 1919, Mordecai Anielewicz was a Polish Jew who led Jewish resistance to the Nazis as deportations of the Warsaw Ghetto commenced. He was the leader of the Jewish Fighting Organization (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa) and urged the building of bunkers and the acquisition of weapons. When Nazis returned in January 1943, the ŻOB responded with a sufficiently effective force to cause the Germans to withdrew, at least until April, when they returned with 2000 troops. This, too, was met with a Jewish defensive force until the Nazi's located and gassed the ŻOB bunker on May 8, 1943. Anielewicz is presumed to have died that day. Here is a good Yad Vashem article about the uprising: https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/general/the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2DEIsdJgWhBBmQUhMhDNTHCIX1k2mgLBeKoVRBOj5X8Y0OS-_AJK57vIs_aem_AYj8XJM3O47N_YWjDQ-2xzj4HuXZ-CIeIjpAmKdnJ18CHwsVuj5jrwsVjQvuWkZ7nLst9-lrraWD63siUViy0088