35 days ago by nickmalkoutzis

Illustration by Manos Symeonakis It’s one of life’s great ironies that the people who would derive most satisfaction from anniversary celebrations are rarely around to enjoy them. So, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel took ex-Polish President Lech Walesa and former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbach ...

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62 days ago by bobfrombrockley

Poumista has a great list of links to obituaries to Marek Edelman, who we mourned here, leaving me with nothing left to say. Except what an extraordinary man to be mourned by Trotskyists, Zionists and the US State Department! Here are some of the links: Moshe Arens, Nick Lowles, History is Made at N ...

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70 days ago by Vinay Lal

Marek Edelman, a staunchly anti-Zionist Jew who was a deputy commander of the ill-fated Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and a true inheritor of the tradition of Jewish radicalism bequeathed by the likes of Rosa Luxembourg, passed away at his home in Warsaw on October 2nd. In India, that same day, the birthd ...

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73 days ago by lenin

This is what Marek Edelman did. In April 1943 he, along with some confederates of his - notably Mordecai Anielewicz, Chaim Frimmer and Adam Halperin - embarked on a violent uprising, using a combination of home-made and obsolete weapons, against the Nazis. Their aim was to stop the Nazis from transp ...

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75 days ago by tobybee

Marek Edelman, one of the commanders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, has died in Warsaw. The New York Times has an obituary about him, which tells us that… Marek Edelman was born on Sept. 19, 1919, the only son of a family that spoke Yiddish at home and Polish at work. His father died when he was ver ...

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75 days ago by schalom libertad

Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the ill-fated 1943 Warsaw ghetto revolt against the Nazis, died Friday at the age of 90. Here is the obituary from the Associated Press about Edelman’s life. For a more in-depth look, I highly recommend the *significantly better*, though somewhat longer, d ...

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76 days ago by Ben Cohen

A friend of mine in Warsaw emailed me earlier today with the sad news that Marek Edelman (zichrono livracha) - the last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising - has passed away at the age of ninety. In 1942, Edelman was one of the founders of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) which ...

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76 days ago by Reuben

The Anthem of the Jewish Partisans: Zog Nit Keyn Mol The news has just come through that Marek Edelman, leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising has passed away. Edelman cut his political teeth as a leader of the Jewish Workers Bund – a mass Jewish Marxist organisation – in prewar Poland – fighting agai ...

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113 days ago by Batya

Sorry about the delay in my posting this to the blog. Batya Here's Chaim's report, and following are some photos: Date: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 3:39 PM I sent the letter below last Wednesday. It was not delivered to the list because it was too heavy, probably because I attached too many pictures. ...

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116 days ago by Al Filreis

"The Ghetto Fights," by Marek Edelman, was published in a pamphlet called The Warsaw Ghetto: The 45th Anniversary of the Uprising by Interpress Publishers. Hard-to-find document I've made available through my Holocaust site. Marek Edelman (born December 31, 1922) is a Polish political and social act ...

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