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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.
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