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  Mordecai Anielewicz
Anielewicz demanded from his colleagues to send back a group of members to the occupied territories in Poland to continue the educational and political activities underground.
In March - April 1942, Anielewicz was one of the founders of the "Anti-fascist group".
Anielewicz started to reorganize the group with great success because there was much support for the idea of fighting after the major deportation of all the underground groups.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Anielevich.html   (849 words)

  
 JDL: True Jewish Heroes: Mordechai Anielewicz
Anielewicz was born in 1919 into a poor family living in Warsaw.
Anielewicz was appointed commander of the ZOB in November 1942.
During the beginning of the uprising, Anielewicz was in the midst of the main fighting forces.
www.jdl.org /misc/heroes/anielewicz.shtml   (482 words)

  
 Mordechai Anielewicz
It was on that day, under the leadership of Mordechai Anielewicz, that a small group of Jews fought the killers in the now famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Mordechai Anielewicz was born in 1919 in Warsaw, Poland.
In November of 1942 Mordechai was appointed commander of the ZOB, which bought a small number of firearms from greedy Poles on the other side of the ghetto wall.
www.jbuff.com /c042204.htm   (661 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mordechaj Anielewicz
Mordechai Anielewicz (1919 – May 8, 1943) was the commander of the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (English: Jewish Fighting Organization), also known as ŻOB, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
In the summer of 1942, Anielewicz was visiting the southwest region of Poland – annexed to Germany – attempting to organize armed resistance.
Kibbutz Yad Mordechai in Israel is named for him, and a monument was erected in his memory.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mordechai_Anielewicz   (579 words)

  
 Anielewicz, Mordechai
Mordechai Anielewicz nacque nel 1920 in una famiglia povera dei quartieri periferici di Varsavia.
Anielewicz si mise a capo della organizzazione riuscendo a farvi entrare anche i diversi partiti ebraici non sionisti con l’esclusione dei comunisti.
L’8 maggio Anielewicz e diversi altri leader della ZOB vennero assediati in uno degli ultimi bunker sotterranei del Ghetto in via Mila 18.
www.olokaustos.org /opposizione/biografie/resbio/anielewicz.htm   (444 words)

  
 Mordechaj Anielewicz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In early 1943, a connection with the Polish government in exile in London was made and the group received weapons from the Polish underground on the "Aryan" side of the city.
Mordechai Anielewicz and his girlfriend Mira Fuchrer in the ruined Warsaw ghetto.
Anielewicz committed suicide, along with his girlfriend and many of his staff, in the ŻOB bunker at 18 Miła Street[1] on May 8, once their capture by the Germans was inevitable.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mordechai_Anielewicz   (567 words)

  
 The Daily Beacon
Anielewicz manages to escape only to find that the city of Warsaw has been surrounded and sections of it blocked off and dubbed the Warsaw Ghetto.
Frustrated and angry, Anielewicz decides that it is time to take a stand against his oppressors and enlists some fellow patrons to his cause and they form the Jewish Fighting Organization.
Anielewicz soon finds the allies that he seeks and organizes a fighting force to oppose the Nazis within the Ghetto.
dailybeacon.utk.edu /showarticle.php?articleid=36766   (342 words)

  
 Yahrzeit of Mordechai Anielewicz - May 8, 1943
At the young age of 23, Mordechai rose to lead and inspire the largest resistance uprising against the Holocaust and the Nazis.
A person true to his ideals, Anielewicz was among the first to assist the movement by returning to his native Warsaw to carry on the cause.
The tragedy was that all that Mordechai Anielewicz believed in would ultimately seal his fate.
www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=1043   (1488 words)

  
 Mordechai Anielewicz: 1919 — 1943
Anielewicz had long advocated armed resistance against the Germans and upon the formation of the ZOB he was named its commander.
Moreshet Mordecai Anielewicz Memorial - A Youth Movement Campus was conceived at the educational institute, Givat Haviva, in the late 1980s, in memory of Mordecai Anielewicz, under the direction of the late Haikah Grossman.
Special emphasis is directed to educating youth (Arab and Jews, students and teachers, as well as overseas visitors) to take personal and social responsibility for their own generation and for the national and social environment in which they live, and to make personal choices concerning their role in society.
www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=1379   (2168 words)

  
 Mordechai Anielewicz
The courage, idealism, and strong leadership abilities of Mordechai Anielewicz helped iniate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the single largest Jewish armed resistance against the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Anielewicz was determined to reinvigorate the Jewish Combat Organization (the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa,or ZOB) and actively fight back against the Nazis.
Mordechai threw himself into the defense activity with all his zeal.
fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/people/Anielewi.htm   (557 words)

  
 Addendum 2 – Facts about Polish Resistance and Aid to Ghetto Fighters
On the 19th of April, 1943, conspirators of ZOB (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa) under Mordechai Anielewicz's command began pitched battles after a 900 member unit of SS troops under the command of SS general Jurgen Stroop entered the Warsaw ghetto the day before April the 18th with orders to liquidate the ghetto.
AK command disseminated several appeals to the nation to help the plight of the Jews in the ghetto, as well as sending radio transmissions to inform the allies and the world of the tragic status and the difficulty of the fight being undertaken by the Jews in the ghetto.
The resistance fighters fought on till the 8th of May. Mordechai Anielewicz, and a dear friend Arie Wilner and others of ZOB command committed suicide in a surrounded bunker by the SS near 18 Mila street.
www.amopod.org /uprising/Addend_2.htm   (550 words)

  
 Resistance During the Shoah (Holocaust)
Z.O.B. leader, Mordechai Anielewicz (23 years old), ordered a proclamation to the remaining ghetto inhabitants to resist going to the rail station for deportation.
The thoughts of Mordechai Anielewicz may have best captured the uprising, "...what really matters is that the dream of my live has become true.
Mordechai Anielewicz also died in the bunker command at 18 Mila Street.
artfuljesus.0catch.com /judaica/shoah.html   (2810 words)

  
 Historical figures in the Worldwar Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Anielewicz and Skorzeny, on the other hand, are among Turtledove's most charismatic characters.
In real life, Anielewicz led the Jewish resistance to the Nazis in Warsaw until killed in battle in 1943.
In a defining moment, Anielewicz decides to allow Major Heinrich Jager safe passage to Germany with plutonium as long as Jager gives him half of the shipment to smuggle to the United States.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue17/history.html   (330 words)

  
 Mordecai Anielewicz
In January 1943, Heinrich Himmler gave instructions for Warsaw to be "Jew free" by Hitler's birthday on 20th April.
Mordechai threw himself into the defence activity with all his zeal.
Mordechai was the soul of the organization, one of its most devoted workers.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWanielewicz.htm   (1031 words)

  
 Philatelic and Numismatic Items of the Holocaust - Post Holocaust Europe
This cover was issued in Israel to commemorate an event which has gone down in Jewish history as the greatest act of defiance against the Nazi enemy perpetrated by the Jews of the beleaguered ghettoes.
Mordechai Anilewicz, the leader of the revolt, described it thus in his letter to his comrade-in-arms Antek Zuckerman: "...something has happened that we could not have envisaged, even in our wildest dreams.
MORDECHAI ANILEWICZ Mordechai Anilewicz was born in 1919 in Warsaw.
www.chgs.umn.edu /Histories__Narratives__Documen/Philatelic__Nazi_Philatelic_1_/Europe_2/europe_2.html   (519 words)

  
 Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto
The movie brilliantly shows the complexity of daily life in the ghetto--the heart-wrenching deportations, the traitorous role played by Jewish police who patrolled their own people in exchange for special treatment, and the small acts of resistance by ordinary people.
Mordechai Anielewicz (played by Hank Azaria) is a leader of the Jewish Resistance--and most likely a socialist, although the movie doesn’t spell this out.
Anielewicz tries to persuade the head of the Jewish Council, Adam Czerniakow (played by Donald Sutherland) to use the council’s funds to smuggle arms into the ghetto.
www.socialistworker.org /2001/382/382_09_Uprising.shtml   (633 words)

  
 Leo Melamed - Odds and Ends - Leo Melamed Remarks - US Holocaust Memorial Museum Gathering
Mordechai Anielewicz was the twenty-three-year-old commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization who on April 19, 1943 stood fast with his brave contingent of 750 Warsaw Ghetto fighters and faced the onslaught of the powerful German army.
On the exact day when Jews throughout the free world were sitting down for their traditional Seder, SS Gruppenfuherer Jurgen Stroop, Commander of the Warsaw occupation forces, led a trained German army into the ghetto to deliver its final liquidation.
Mordechai Anielewicz and the remainder of his resistance fighters, in an act of defiance reminiscent of the rebels at Masada, took their lives in their Mila 18 bunker, rather than be captured by the Nazis.
www.leomelamed.com /oddsandends/04-neverforget.htm   (2240 words)

  
 eReader.com: Excerpt from Worldwar: Striking the Balance
That was what Anielewicz was there for, but he didn't like the way the sentry said it even so.
Anielewicz had let him travel on to Germany with half of it, diverting the other half to the United States.
The only thing Adolf Hitler could do to make Anielewicz happy would be to drop dead, and to do that properly he would have had to manage it before 1939.
www.ereader.com /product/book/excerpt/5054?book=Worldwar:_Striking_the_Balance:_Volume_4   (4693 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Mordechai Anielewicz": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
With a curse half in Yiddish, half in Polish, Mordechai Anielewicz used the hand brake on his bicycle.
Mordechai Anielewicz, the twenty-four-year-old commander in chief of the Jewish Fighting Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa), or ZOB,...
Mordechai Anielewicz whistled as he rode a bicycle along a road not far from the border between Lizard-occupied Poland and the Greater...
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 TV Barn
Azaria plays Mordechai Anielewicz, who in the words of one ghetto survivor was "the soul of the organization." Azaria, the heir to Richard Chamberlain as king of the TV spectaculars (he also starred in "Tuesdays With Morrie"), is tough and wily as the teacher turned guerrilla leader.
Mordechai is preparing his comrades for the end game with the Nazis, but not everyone is ready to accept the ethical logic of armed resistance.
As Mordechai tells his girlfriend, "If we can't get to Palestine and be farmers, we'll stay here and be fighters." - To reach Aaron Barnhart, phone (816) 234-4790 or visit the TV Barn Web site at www.tvbarn.com.
blogs.kansascity.com /tvbarn/2001/week44/index.html   (1792 words)

  
 TVShowsOnDVD.com - Review for Uprising (mini-series) - Uprising
Hank Azaria portrays Mordechai Anielewicz, one of the leaders of the uprising.
The story starts with the occupation of Poland by the Germans and the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto separating the Polish Jews from the rest of the population.
Mordechai realizes it's better to die fighting than to board a train for a death camp and he forms an underground resistance along with Yitzhak Zuckerman (Schwimmer) and a fe others.
www.tvshowsondvd.com /reviewlist.cfm?ShowID=5134   (824 words)

  
 Primer
With a tiny number of cheap weapons, the ZOB was able to fend off deportations.
Anielewicz was killed in battle on May 8.
Perhaps Mordechai Anielewicz expressed it best in a letter just two weeks before his death: "The most important thing is that my life's dream has come true.
www.tampabayprimer.org /index.cfm?action=articles&drill=viewArt&art=1156   (747 words)

  
 Australian Memories Of The Holocaust
Using stolen, smuggled and captured weapons, the Jewish Ghetto Fighters led by Mordechai Anielewicz drove the German soldiers out.
In total, 56 000 Jewish resistance fighters were killed, including Mordechai Anielewicz, but the triumph was all theirs.
As Anielewicz had written on April 23rd: “The dream of my life has come true.
www.holocaust.com.au /mm/j_warsaw.htm   (435 words)

  
 Otto Skorzeny - Turtledove - A Wikia wiki
After the war had officially ended, Skorzeny smuggled an atomic bomb into Łódź to destroy the city and disrupt the newfound, fragile peace between the Race and the human powers.
He was narrowly prevented from doing so by Jäger, Mordechai Anielewicz and Ludmila Gorbunova.
Skorzeny failed to detonate the bomb and was killed on this mission--but not before exposing his three opponents to enough nerve gas to kill Jäger and leave Gorbunova permanently crippled.
turtledove.wikia.com /wiki/Otto_Skorzeny   (398 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Uprising
As the situation worsens and escape routes vanish, Mordechai rounds up those who might help, using women (including Leelei Sobeski and Radha Mitchell) to infiltrate the gentile side of the city and gather supplies and information.
But in 1943, as the mass exodus of Warsaw Jews into concentration camps began, Mordechai and his team strike back in force, and hold off the German army via a guerrilla revolt.
In the leading role, Hank Azaria doesn't exactly command the small screen, but his mastery of accents (as shown with his multiple turns on The Simpsons) comes in handy, keeping his character believable, while David Schwimmer is surprisingly inoffensive in a rare non-comedic role.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/u/uprising.q.shtml   (552 words)

  
 Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education: Holocaust Educational
Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition Flyer for 2006 - 2007
Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition Suggested Resources for 2006- 2007
Echoes and Reflections - Holocaust Education Workshop, including an orientation to the Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition.
www.acaje.org /content/holocaust/resources/MordechaiAnielewicz.shtml   (168 words)

  
 eReader.com: Excerpt from Worldwar: Striking the Balance
Back when they'd met in Hrubieszów, Anielewicz had figured he was no one's fool.
When he turned back toward Mordechai, his face was troubled.
My word, at least, is good." He eyed Anielewicz, as if daring him to deny it.
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