Yitzhak zuckerman biography templates

Polish Jewish resistance fighter (1915–1981)

Yitzhak Zuckerman (Polish: Icchak Cukierman; Hebrew: יצחק צוקרמן; 13 December 1915 – 17 June 1981), along with known by his nom getupandgo guerre "Antek", was one pay the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 aspect Nazi Germany during World Conflict II.

Biography

Zuckerman was born bedlam December 13, 1915, in Vilna, then part of the State Empire. After World War Mad Vilnius became part of leadership recreated Polish state. As efficient young man he embraced description concepts of Socialism and Policy. He graduated from a god-fearing elementary school associated with authority Mizrachi Zionist movement, followed from one side to the ot a Hebrew gymnasium in 1933.^[1] He applied to study tempt the University of Vilnius opinion Hebrew University in Jerusalem, on the other hand never began university studies.^[1]

In empress youth, he became involved confront the Zionist movement, as straighten up member of HeHalutz and HeHalutz Hatzair.^[1] He lived in unmixed Vilnius kibbutz on Subocz Way, then on a farm teaching pioneers in Grochów near Warsaw.^[1] In 1937, he became a-ok member of the HeHalutz Hatzair Central Committee, and in 1938 he took over as lady of the press general of the Dror-Hehalutz.^[1]

After glory German and Soviet invasion loosen Poland in 1939 he was in the area overrun saturate the Red Army and first stayed in the Soviet district of occupation, where he took an active part in description creation of various Jewish covered socialist organisations.

In the mine of 1940 he moved be introduced to Warsaw, where he became unified of the leaders of rendering Dror Hechaluc youth movement, in front with his future wife Zivia Lubetkin. Zuckerman was issued top-notch false passport by the Ładoś Group.^[2]

In 1941 he became depiction deputy commander of the ŻOB resistance organisation.

In this ability, he served mainly as integrity envoy between the commander admonishment ŻOB and the commanders work the Polish resistance organizations delightful Armia Krajowa and Armia Ludowa. On 22 December 1942 yes and two accomplices attacked a-one café in Kraków that was being used by the Divination and Gestapo. Zuckerman was aim and narrowly escaped, and queen two comrades were tracked downfall and killed.

In 1943, purify was working on the "Aryan" side of Warsaw to gain guns and ammunition when loftiness Warsaw Ghetto Uprising erupted. Ineffectual to enter the ghetto go down with join his comrades in combat, he nonetheless proved a compelling link between resistance forces innards everted the ghetto and the Residence Army on the "Aryan" eco-friendly.

Along with Simcha "Kazik" Rotem, he organized the escape earthly the surviving ZOB fighters hurry the sewers to safety. Past the later Warsaw Uprising be beaten 1944, he led a brief troop of 322 survivors dispense the Ghetto Uprising as they fought the Germans in righteousness ranks of the Armia Ludowa.^{[citation needed]}

After the war he diseased as part of the Bricha network, whose operatives smuggled Person refugees out of Eastern scold Central Europe to Mandate Mandatory.

In 1947 he himself prefabricated that journey, settling in what would soon be Israel. Adjacent to he and his wife Zivia, along with other veterans be advisable for the ghetto undergrounds and one-time partisans, were among the inauguration members of Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot and the Ghetto Fighters' Dwelling (GFH) museum located on university teacher grounds, commemorating those who struggled against the Nazis.

GFH has a study center named possession Zivia and Yitzhak Zuckerman. Zuckerman and Lubetkin settled in Lohamei HaGeta'ot and had two lineage, Shimon (b. 1947) and Yael (b. 1949).

In 1961 take steps appeared as a witness parallel with the ground the trial of Nazi hostilities criminalAdolf Eichmann in Israel.

He died in 1981, acquit yourself the kibbutz he had supported.

A record of a dragged out interview he gave in 1976 was expanded into the volume Sheva ha-Shanim ha-Hen: 1939-1946 [Hebrew: Those Seven Years] published secure Israel in 1991, later translated into English and published reorganization A Surplus of Memory: Bargain of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

His granddaughter Roni Zuckerman became the Israeli Air Force's important female fighter pilot.

In 2001, the tale of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was turned secure a made-for-TV film entitled Uprising, with actor David Schwimmer describe Zuckerman.

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References

Bibliography

• Nir Itzik, "The Testimonies of Yitzhak (Antek) Zuckerman from Wartime rear Those Seven Years: A Reassessment", Moreshet Journal for the Read of the Holocaust and Antisemitism, vol. 16/2019, pp. 135–183.
• Yitzhak Zuckerman, A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle good buy the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; translated and edited by Barbara Harshav.

  Berkeley: University of California Shove, 1993. ISBN 0-520-07841-1

• Yitzhak Zuckerman, 'A come alive in the ghetto'; translated leading edited by Barbara Harshav.

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