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NAME: Yitzhak Zuckerman
OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist, Folk Hero
BIRTH DATE: c. 1915
DEATH DATE: June 17, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH: Warsaw, Poland
PLACE OF DEATH: Tel Aviv, Israel
AKA: Itzhak Zuckerman
AKA: Yitzhak Cukierman

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Yitzhak Zuckerman was a hero of Jewish resistance to the Nazis in WWII and one of the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Yitzhak Zuckerman biography

Profile

Perceiving the full scope of Nazi plans, Yitzhak Zuckerman and other resistance leaders found the determination to fight and to risk their lives. He was active in a federation of young Zionist organizations and favored armed resistance to Nazi depredations, culminating in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. At war's end, he organized underground transportation for Jewish refugees from Europe to Palestine.

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