Michał Rozenfeld

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Michał Rozenfeld
Michał Rozenfeld's grave and him were accompanied by fighters in the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw.

Michał Rozenfeld (* 1916 ; † September 2, 1943 in Krawcowizna , Mazovia ) was a Polish Jewish resistance fighter during the Second World War , a participant in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and partisan of the People's Guard (pol. Gwardia Ludowa) named Mordechaj Anielewicz .

Life

Michał Rozenfeld studied psychology before the outbreak of World War II. a. with Tadeusz Kotarbiński. After the outbreak of war , Rozenfeld ended up in the Warsaw ghetto , where he worked as a teacher. He was a member of the Polish Workers' Party ( Polska Partia Robotnicza ) and the main armed forces of the Jewish Fighting Organization ( Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, short ŻOB ). Together with Mordechaj Anielewicz he was in the bunker at ul. Miła 18. On May 10, 1943, he escaped through canals along with a group of Jewish resistance fighters on ulica Prosta.

After the uprising was put down, he hid in the woods near Wyszków , where he fought in a detachment of the People's Guard. A forester from Krawcowizna informed the German enemy that the partisans were in the forest. Twelve fighters were killed, including Michał Rozenfeld. He is buried in the mass grave of the People's Guard partisans in the Jewish cemetery on ulica Okopowa in Warsaw (Quartier 31, row 3).

In 1945 he was posthumously awarded the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari Order.

memory

Michał Rozenfeld's name is on the plaque on the memorial of the evacuation of fighters from the Warsaw ghetto at 51 Prosta Street in Warsaw.

literature

  • Józef Bolesław Garas: Oddziały Gwardii Ludowej i Armii Ludowej 1942–1945. Warsaw 1971.
  • Jan Jagielski: Przewodnik po cmentarzu żydowskim w Warszawie przy ul. Okopowej 49/51. Line 1, Kwatery przy Alei Głównej. Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zabytkami, Warsaw 1996, ISBN 83-90-66296-5 , p. 52.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adam Rutkowski, 1960: "Męczeństwo, walka zagłada Żydów w Polsce, 1939-1945: Scenariusz, teksty, wybór zdjęć i dokumentów"
  2. ↑ Michał Rozenfeld's grave in the database of the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw.
  3. ^ Cmentarz Zydowski: Przy ulicy okopowej. Rokart, 2003, accessed June 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Rozenfeld, Michał
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Jewish resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1943
Place of death Krawcowizna , Mazovia