79 years ago, the Jewish Combat Organization carried out its first execution in the Warsaw Ghetto. Eliahu Różański shot Jakub Lejkin – the chief of the Jewish police in Gęsia Street. Read how reports from the Ringelblum Archive describe the circumstances.
A student and a refugee from Aleksandrów Kujawski, Daniel Fligelman transcribed, edited and copied testimonies about persecution of Jews in the ghettos, in the Eastern Borderlands, in labor camps. A „biting sense of humor” was a distinctive feature in his writings.
19 kwietnia 1943 r. Niemcy weszli do getta warszawskiego. Powitał ich ogień powstańców, młodych ludzi z Żydowskiej Organizacji Bojowej i Żydowskiego Związku Wojskowego. Świadkiem przygotowań i walk był twórca Podziemnego Archiwum Getta Warszawy, Emanuel Ringelblum.
Philosopher, teacher, scholar associated with the political left wing
112 years ago, Henryka Łazowertówna was born – a poet, social activist, member of the Oneg Shabbat group. For the Ringelblum Archive, she wrote down accounts of Jewish refugees struggling with poverty and hunger. She wrote one of the most famous works from the Warsaw Ghetto – the poem “The Little Smuggler”.