Mordecai Anielewicz Biography

Mordecai Anielewicz biography

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NAME: Mordecai Anielewicz
OCCUPATION: Military Leader
BIRTH DATE: c. 1919
DEATH DATE: May 08, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH: Wyszków, Poland
PLACE OF DEATH: Warsaw, Poland
AKA: Mordechai Anilowitz

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Mordecai Anielewicz organized Jews to fight off the Germans during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.

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Born in 1919, Mordecai Anielewicz joined a Zionist youth group as a boy, and by 1940 he had become actively pro-Soviet and vocal in encouraging Polish Jews to defend themselves against oppression. After the German invasion of Poland, he organized the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto to fight off the Germans in 1943. Anielewicz's forces held Warsaw from January to May, before falling to the German army.