PEOPLE U NEED TO KNOW FROM WARSAW

• Tosia Altman - ghetto resistance fighter, escaped the Ghetto in 1943 uprising through the sewers. Died afterwards after she was caught by the Gestapo when the celluloid factory where she hid caught fire.
• Mordechaj Anielewicz - ghetto resistance leader in the ŻOB (alias Aniołek). Died in the ghetto uprising when he and many of his comrades committed suicide at their surrounded command post.
• Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum - ghetto resistance leader and commander of the ŻZW. Killed in action during the ghetto uprising.
• Adam Czerniaków - engineer and senator, head of the Warsaw Judenrat (Jewish council). Committed suicide in 1942.
• Yitzhak Gitterman - director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Poland, resistance fighter. Killed in action during the ghetto uprising.
• Itzhak Katzenelson - teacher, poet, dramatist and resistance fighter. Executed at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944.
• Janusz Korczak - children's author, pediatrician, child pedagogist and orphanage owner. Executed at Treblinka in 1942, after refusing an offer to leave his orphans and escape.
• Simon Pullman - conductor of the Warsaw Ghetto symphony orchestra. Executed at Treblinka in 1942.
• Emanuel Ringelblum - historian, politician and social worker, leader of the Ghetto chroniclers. Discovered in Warsaw and executed together with his family in 1944.
• Kalonymus Kalman Shapira - grand rabbi of Piaseczno. Executed at Trawniki during Aktion Erntefest in 1943.
• Lidia Zamenhof - Esperantist, daughter of Dr. L. L. Zamenhof. Executed at Treblinka in 1942.
• Nathalie Zand - Neurologist and research scientist. Practised as a doctor within the ghetto. Executed at Pawiak prison, September 1942