Mordechai Tenenbaum

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Mordechai Tenenbaum

Mordechai Tenenbaum (* 1916 in Warsaw , † around August 20, 1943 in Białystok ) was a Jewish resistance fighter in Poland during the Second World War .

Live and act

Mordechai Tenenbaum was born in Warsaw in 1916. At the age of 20 he began studying Semitic languages . At the end of the 1930s he was active in various Jewish youth organizations. Under the German occupation he joined underground movements in the Vilna and Warsaw ghettos . In July 1942 he was one of the founders of the Jewish combat group "„ydowska Organizacja Bojowa" (ŻOB). Later the Jewish resistance fighter was also involved in the unification of the “anti-fascist bloc”. In November 1942 he went to the Bialystok ghetto . One of his first activities was the establishment of an underground archive , which he ran based on the model of the Ringelblum archive in Warsaw and which collected evidence of the persecution of Jews. The documents are now in Israel and Poland. After the merging of various resistance groups in the Białystok ghetto in July 1943 to form a "united front", he was elected leader in the resistance struggle against the Germans. After the experience of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising , the German SS and police units had apparently changed their liquidation tactics in the case of the Białystok ghetto. After the ghetto was hermetically sealed by German security forces on the night of August 15-16, 1943, Tenenbaum and his supporters ran out of ammunition after just a few days. He probably took his own life around August 20, 1943 in a hopeless situation.

Award

Tenenbaum was posthumously awarded the Polish Order Grunwald Cross (Order Krzyża Grunwaldu) III on April 18, 1945 . Class excellent.

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personal data
SURNAME Tenenbaum, Mordechai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish resistance fighter during World War II
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH around August 20, 1943
Place of death Białystok , Poland