Mira Fuchrer

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Mira Fuchrer
Mordechaj Anielewicz

Mira Fuchrer (* 1920 in Warsaw ; † May 8, 1943 ibid) was a Polish-Jewish resistance fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto and a member of the Jewish Fighting Organization (Polish: Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa , ŻOB for short). She took an active part in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II .

Life

Mira Fuchrer was born in Warsaw. She worked in the Jewish youth organization Hashomer Hatzair . It was there that she probably met Mordechaj Anielewicz . The two became a couple. In September 1939 Fuchrer went to Vilnius with Anielewicz . They returned to Warsaw in 1940. In November they both ended up in the Warsaw ghetto.

There Mira Fuchrer worked together with her friends Towa Frenkel and Rachela Zylberberg in a small tailor shop. In 1942 she went to other ghettos as a reporter.

During the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto, she fought in the so-called central ghetto. On May 8, 1943, she was together with Mordechaj Anielewicz and a group of 120 insurgents in the bunker at ulica Miła 18. When the bunker was discovered and attacked by the Germans, the resistance fighters refused to surrender. At Arie Wilner's call, most of them committed suicide or died from gas that the Germans fed into the bunker.

memory

Mira Fuchrer's name is on the memorial obelisk that was erected at the foot of Anielewicz Hill in 2006, along with the names of 50 other insurgents whose identities have been established. Her friends Towa Frenkel and Rachela Zylberberg are also mentioned here.

The names of Mira Fuchrer, Mordechaj Anielewicz and other Jewish insurgents who perished in the bunker at 18 Miła Street (on the obelisk at the foot of Anielewicz Hill).

literature

  • Anka Grupińska: Ciągle po kole. Rozmowy z żołnierzami getta warszawskiego . Wydawnictwo Twój Styl, Warsaw 2000, ISBN 83-7163-187-1 , p. 381.
  • Cywia Lubetkin: Zagłada i powstanie . Książka i Wiedza, Warsaw 1999, ISBN 83-05-13041-X , p. 172.

Web links

Commons : Mira Fuchrer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anka Grupińska: listy Odczytanie. Opowieści o powstańcach żydowskich . 1st edition. Wydawn. Literackie, Krakow 2003, ISBN 83-08-03314-8 .
  2. ↑ Jacek Leociak, Paweł E. Weszpiński, Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagłada Żydów: warszawskie ghetto. Przewodnik po nieistniejącym mieście . Wydanie drugie, zmienione, poprawione i rozszerzone edition. Warsaw 2013, ISBN 978-83-63444-27-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Fuchrer, Mira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-Jewish resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1943
Place of death Warsaw