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Leaders of All Jewish Groups Join in Armed Resistance Against Gestapo in Poland

February 15, 1944
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Members of all Jewish parties participated in the armed resistance against the Gestapo in the “Jewish concentration camps” of Trawhild and Poniatow, in occupied Poland, it was learned here today from a report received from the Jewish underground movement.

Attached to the report is a list of 233 names of fallen leaders of the revolt in the Warsaw ghetto. They include prominent Zionists and active members of the Jewish Socialist Bund. The report also lists the names of Zionist and Bund leaders who lost their lives during battles in Trewniki and Poniatow. It confirms the death in a Nazi tortured chamber in Lubin of Dr. Ignacy Schipper, the noted Jewish historian and Zionist labor leader and reveals that among those also tortured to death were Zyshe Friedman, the leader of the Agudas Israel, Dr. Pulo Nussenblatt, the biographer of Dr. Heral, Dr. Edmund Stain, lecturer at the Warsaw Jewish Institute, A Samberg, noted Jewish actor and a number of prominent Jewish writers and social workers.

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