Leon Rodal

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Leon Rodal

Leon Rodal , also Arie Rodal or Lejb Rodal (* 1913 in Kielce ; † May 6, 1943 in Warsaw ) was a Polish journalist, activist of the revisionist-Zionist party, co-founder and one of the leaders of the Jewish Military Association (pol. Żydowski Związek Wojskowy , short ŻZW ). Rodal took part in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and died during it.

Life

Leon Rodal, also known by the names Lejb (in Yiddish ) and Arie (in Hebrew ), was a famous war journalist for the magazines Moment and Di Tat ; he wrote in Yiddish. He was also an activist for the revisionist Zionist party.

After the outbreak of the Second World War he ended up in the Warsaw Ghetto , where in 1942 he was one of the co-founders and leaders of the Jewish Military Association . In the military association he was responsible for the information department, in which the preparation, printing and distribution of magazines, brochures and posters took place and where conversations were secretly followed. In the first days of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising , Rodal fought in Plac Muranowski, where he defended the headquarters of the Jewish Military Union, located in the building at 7/9 Muranowska Street. During the battle on Plac Muranowski , he and the military leader Paweł Frenkel evaded the positions of the rebels and approached the positions of the collaborating Ukrainian troops and took them by surprise.

On April 25, 1943, after the collapse of the defense of Plac Muranowski, Rodal and the detachment led by Frenkel managed to escape from the ghetto through an underground passage. The department stayed in the previously prepared conspiratorial apartment at ul. Grzybowska 11/13. From there, the subdivisions of the Jewish Military Association went to the burning ghetto at night to rescue the captured civilians. The first such rescue operation was led by Leon Rodal, who on May 5, 1943 drove a group of civilians out of the ghetto. The next day he went back to the ghetto to take the rest of the group out. On the way back, the department was ambushed and attacked by the SS and navy blue police department (navy blue police: Polish police in the Generalgouvernement; police units set up by Germany). Rodal and many members of his department were killed in the fighting.

memory

On November 9, 2017 was in Warsaw the ulica Edwarda Fondamińskiego renamed the Ulica Leona Rodala. The street is located in Warsaw's Śródmieście ( City Center ) district, in its part Nowe Miasto (New Town ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Powstanie w getcie i powojenni hochsztaplerzy . znak.org.pl, 2012-04-20.
  2. ↑ Dariusz Libionka, Laurence Weinbaum. Pomnik apple tree, czyli klątwa "majora" Iwańskiego. Prawdziwa i nieprawdziwa historia Żydowskiego Związku Wojskowego . “Więź”. 4, 2007.
  3. ↑ Dawid Wdowiński: And We Are Not Saved. London: Allen, 1964, p. 95.
  4. ↑ Barbara Engelking, Jacek Leociak: Getto Warszawskie. Przewodnik po nieistniejącym mieście. Warszawa: IFiS PAN, 2001, p. 737.
  5. ↑ Dawid Wdowiński: op.cit . P. 96.
  6. ↑ Supplementary ordinance of the Masovian Voivode of November 9th, 2017 regarding the naming of the street name (pol. Zarządzenie Zastępcze Wojewody Mazowieckiego z dnia 9 listopada 2017 r. W sprawie nadania nazwy ulicy ), “Dziennik Urzędowy Województwa Mazowiegoy, November 10th 2017” , Item 10108.
personal data
SURNAME Rodal, Leon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodal, aria; Rodal, Lejb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish journalist, activist of the revisionist-Zionist party, co-founder and one of the leaders of the Jewish Military Association Żydowski Związek Wojskowy
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kielce
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1943
Place of death Warsaw