Commander of the Warsaw uprising
Mordechai Anielewicz
Life
1919–1943
He led the Jewish Fighting Organization in the April 1943 uprising.
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About 1,000 young people of the Jewish Fighting Organization, under Mordechai Anielewicz, fought for three weeks with pistols and Molotov cocktails. On 19 April 1943, the eve of Passover, Warsaw ghetto fighters lay in wait for Germans coming to liquidate it.