Editing Warsaw Ghetto (section)

==People of the Warsaw Ghetto==
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===Casualties===
[[File:Umschlagplatz noc.JPG|thumb|[[Umschlagplatz]] Memorial on Stawki Street]]
[[File:Mur getta warszawskiego.jpg|thumb|Borders of the ghetto are marked in remembrance of its victims]]
* [[Tosia Altman]] – ghetto resistance fighter, escaped the ghetto in 1943 uprising through the sewers. Died after she was caught by the [[Gestapo]] when the celluloid factory she was sheltering in caught fire.
* [[Mordechai Anielewicz]] – ghetto resistance leader in the ŻOB (alias ''Aniołek''). Died with many of his comrades at [[Miła 18|their surrounded command post]].
* [[Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum]] – ghetto resistance leader and commander of the ŻZW. Killed in action during the ghetto uprising.{{efn|1=Though Apfelbaum is listed in many books and articles devoted to the revolt in the Warsaw Ghetto as one of the commanders of the Jewish Military Union (see: {{cite journal|first=Moshe|last=Arens|title=The Development of the Narrative of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising|journal=Israel Affairs|volume=14|issue=1|pages=6–28|date=January 2008|doi=10.1080/13537120701705924|s2cid=144134946| issn=1353-7121}}), and a square was named for him in Warsaw,  historians Dariusz Libionka and Laurence Weinbaum have cast doubt about his existence.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Dariusz Libionka|author2=Laurence Weinbaum|title=A legendary commander|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4945664|work=Haaretz|date=June 22, 2007}}</ref>}}
* [[Maria Ajzensztadt]] – singer known as the ''Nightingale of the Ghetto''
* Adam Czerniaków – engineer and senator, head of the Warsaw Judenrat (Jewish council). Committed suicide in 1942.
* [[Paweł Finder]] – First Secretary of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) from 1943 to 1944; killed by Germans in Warsaw Ruins 1944
* [[Paweł Frenkiel]] – one of the leaders of ŻZW (Żydowski Związek Wojskowy – [[Jewish Military Union]]).
* [[Mira Fuchrer]] – ghetto resistance fighter in the ZOB. Died with many of her comrades at [[Miła 18|their surrounded command post]].
* [[Yitzhak Gitterman]] – director of the [[American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee]] in Poland, resistance fighter. Killed in action during the ghetto uprising.
* [[Itzhak Katzenelson]] – teacher, poet, dramatist and resistance fighter. Executed at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944.
* [[Janusz Korczak]] – children's author, pediatrician, child pedagogist and orphanage owner. Executed along with his orphans at Treblinka in August, 1942, after refusing an offer to leave his orphans and escape.
* [[Simon Pullman]] – conductor of the Warsaw Ghetto symphony orchestra. Executed at Treblinka in 1942.
* [[Emanuel Ringelblum]] – historian, politician and social worker, leader of the [[Ringelblum Archive|ghetto chroniclers]]. Discovered in Warsaw and executed together with his family in 1944.
* [[Kalonymus Kalman Shapira]] – grand rabbi of [[Piaseczno]]. Executed at Trawniki during [[Aktion Erntefest]] in 1943.
* [[Gershon Sirota]] – cantor known as the "Jewish Caruso". Was killed during the uprising.
* [[Cecylia Słapakowa]] – journalist and translator, killed at Treblinka in 1942 or at Trawniki in 1943 together with her daughter.
* [[Władysław Szlengel]] – poet of the Warsaw ghetto; killed in 1943 uprising.
* [[Lidia Zamenhof]] – [[Baháʼí Faith|Baháʼí]]-[[Esperanto|Esperantist]] daughter of Dr. [[L. L. Zamenhof]]. Executed at Treblinka in 1942.
* [[Nathalie Zand]] – neurologist and research scientist. Practiced as a doctor within the ghetto. Thought to have been executed at [[Pawiak]] prison, September 1942.
* [[Yitzhak Suknik]] – fighter in the [[Jewish Combat Organization|Jewish Fighting Organization]]. Was shot and killed in combat in an escape operation.

===Survivors===
* [[Rokhl Auerbakh]] – Polish Jewish writer and essayist; member of the ghetto chroniclers group led by [[Emanuel Ringelblum]]. Died in 1976.
* [[Mary Berg]] – 15-year-old diarist (in 1939) born to American mother in [[Łódź]]; [[Pawiak]] internee exchanged for German POWs in March 1944.<ref name="Berg"/> Died in 2013.
* [[Adolf Berman]] – leader in Jewish Underground in Warsaw; member of [[Zegota]] and [[CENTOS (charity)|CENTOS]] – died in 1978.
[[File:Icchak Cukierman.jpg|thumb|[[Yitzhak Zuckerman]] testifies for the prosecution during the trial of [[Adolf Eichmann]] ]]
* [[Yitzhak Zuckerman]] – ghetto resistance leader ("Antek"), founder of the [[Lohamei HaGeta'ot]] kibbutz in Israel. Died in 1981.
* [[Marek Edelman]] – Polish political and social activist, cardiologist. He was the last surviving leader of the ŻOB. Died in 2009.
* Jack P. Eisner – author of "The Survivor of the Holocaust". The young boy who hung the Jewish flag atop the burning building in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ZZW fighter. Commemorator of the Holocaust. Died in 2003.{{efn|1=Eisner's memoir, 'The Survivor' (published in 1980) is challenged as not a reliable source of information.<ref name="Libionka/Weinbaum"/>}}
* Ruben Feldschu (Ben Shem) (1900–1980) – Zionist author and political activist<ref>Laurence Weinbaum, [http://jcpa.org/article/shaking-the-dust-off-the-story-of-the-warsaw-ghettos-forgotten-chronicler-ruben-feldschu-ben-shem "Shaking the Dust Off" The Story of the Warsaw Ghetto's Forgotten Chronicler], [http://jcpa.org/publication/jpsr Jewish Political Studies Review] Vol. 22 No. 3-4 (Fall 2010).</ref>
* [[Joseph Friedenson]] – editor of ''Dos Yiddishe Vort''. Died in 2013.
* [[Bronisław Geremek]] – Polish social historian and politician. Died in 2008.
* [[Martin Gray (writer)|Martin Gray]] – [[NKVD|Soviet secret police]] officer and American and French writer. Died in 2016.
* [[Mietek Grocher]] – Swedish author and the Holocaust remembrance activist.
* Alexander J. Groth – Professor of Political Science at the [[University of California, Davis]]. Author of ''Lincoln: Authoritarian Savior'', ''Democracies Against Hitler: Myth, Reality and Prologue'', ''Holocaust Voices'', and ''Accomplices: Roosevelt, Churchill and the Holocaust''.
* [[Ludwik Hirszfeld]] – Polish microbiologist and serologist, died in 1954.
* [[Morton Kamien]] – Polish-American economist, died in 2011.
* [[Zivia Lubetkin]] – ghetto resistance leader, [[Aliyah Bet]] activist, later married Cukierman. Died in 1976.
* [[Vladka Meed]] – ghetto resistance member; author. Died in 2012.
* [[Uri Orlev]] – Israeli author of the semi-autobiographical novel ''[[The Island on Bird Street]]'' recounting his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto.
* [[Marcel Reich-Ranicki]] – German literary critic. Died in 2013.
* Sol Rosenberg – American steel industrialist and philanthropist. Died in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|title=Businessman Sol Rosenthal dies|date=January 31, 2009|work=The News-Star|location=[[Monroe, Louisiana]]|url=https://thenewsstar.newspapers.com/search/#query=Sol+Rosenberg&ymd=2009-01-31&lnd=1&t=3751|access-date=2019-12-12}}</ref>
* [[Simcha Rotem]] – ghetto resistance fighter ("Kazik"), [[Berihah]] activist, post-war Nazi hunter. Died in 2018.
* [[Uri Shulevitz]] – book illustrator
* [[Władysław Szpilman]] – Polish pianist, composer and writer, subject of the film [[The Pianist (2002 film)|''The Pianist'']] by [[Roman Polanski]] (survivor of the [[Kraków Ghetto]]) based on [[The Pianist (memoir)|his memoir]]. Died in 2000.
* [[Menachem Mendel Taub]] – [[Kaliv]]er rabbi in Israel. Died in 2019.
* [[Dawid Wdowiński]] – psychiatrist, political leader of the [[Irgun]] in Poland, resistance leader of the ŻZW, American memoirist. Died in 1970.
* [[Bogdan-Dawid Wojdowski]] – writer and the author of the most renowned novel about the Warsaw Ghetto, ''Chleb rzucony umarłym'' (1971; ''Bread for the Departed'', 1998).
* [[Freda Hoffman Zgodzinski]] – [[Anarchist Federation of Poland]] militant and publisher of the Yiddish language ''Kul fun Frayhayt'' newspaper produced in the Ghetto. Died 2012.

===Associated people===
* [[Władysław Bartoszewski]] – Polish resistance activist of the [[Żegota]] organization in Warsaw.
* [[Henryk Iwański]] – Polish resistance officer in the charge of support for the ghetto. Died in 1978.{{efn|1=Though he succeeded in convincing a number of historians of the veracity of his story, according to new research by a Polish-Israeli team of historians, Iwanski's unit never entered the ghetto. See: {{cite book|author=Dariusz Libionka|author2=Laurence Weinbaum|title=Bohaterowie, hochsztaplerzy, opisywacze: wokół Żydowskiego Związku Wojskowego|publisher=Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów|location=Warsaw|year=2011|isbn=9788393220281|author-link=Dariusz Libionka}} ''[also in]'' {{cite book |title=The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 |author=Joshua D. Zimmerman |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-1107014268 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4dsCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA218 |page=218|author-link=Joshua D. Zimmerman }}}}
* [[Jan Karski]] – Polish resistance courier who reported on the ghetto for the Allies. Died in 2000.
* [[Zofia Kossak-Szczucka]] – Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter and co-founder of [[Żegota]]. Died in 1968.
* [[Irena Sendler]] – Polish resistance member who smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the ghetto and helped to hide them, subject of the film ''[[The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler]]''. Died in 2008.
* [[Szmul Zygielbojm]] – Polish-Jewish [[socialism|socialist]] politician. In 1943 committed suicide in London in an act of protest against the Allied indifference to the death of the Warsaw Ghetto.
[[File:Warsaw Ghetto destroyed by Germans, 1945.jpg|thumb|center|750px|Ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1945; left, the [[Krasiński Palace|Krasiński's]] Garden and Swiętojerska street. The entire city district was leveled by the German forces according to order from Adolf Hitler after the suppression of the [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]] in 1943]]