Simha Rotizer-Rotem , pseudonym - Kazik ( Polish. Symcha Ratajzer-Rotem ; February 10, 1924 , Warsaw , Poland - December 22, 2018 ) - one of the participants in the Warsaw ghetto uprising , a member of the Jewish military organization , a member of the Jewish resistance during World War II , honorary citizen of Warsaw.
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| Date of Birth | February 10, 1924 | ||
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| Date of death | December 22, 2018 (94 years) | ||
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Biography
Already in September 1939, he lost his brother Israel and other family members as a result of the bombing of the Polish capital by Hitlerite aviation (15-year-old Simkh himself was wounded). After the occupation of Poland became a prisoner of the Warsaw ghetto.
Simha Rotizer-Rotem was a member of the Zionist youth organization Akiba and the Jewish military organization. During the uprising in the ghetto, he was in the detachment of Hanoch Gutman, was a liaison between the fighting ghetto fighters and the detachments operating outside it. On May 1, 1943, he moved outside the ghetto to come into contact with a detachment led by Yitzhak Zuckerman .
After the suppression of the uprising on the night of May 7-8, he moved to the ghetto territory to search for the surviving fighters of the Jewish military organization. On the night of May 9 to May 10, along with Polish workers of the sewer service, a detachment of about 30 people was brought through the sewers outside the ghetto. This detachment hid in the woods near the town of Lomianki near Warsaw.
In August 1944, Simha Rotizer-Rotem participated in the Warsaw Uprising as part of the Jewish army of the Army of Men . In January 1945, he was sent to Lublin with Irina Golblum to establish contacts with the interim Polish government.
After the war, Simha Rotizer-Rotem took part in the underground organization Briha . In November 1946 he moved to Palestine, where he settled in Jerusalem , he worked in industry and commerce.
He published and edited several books of memoirs about the Warsaw ghetto, since 1963 he has been a member of the commission of the Yad Vas va Shem Museum for identifying and rewarding the Righteous Among the Nations. He was an honorary director of the Museum of the Uprising in the Warsaw ghetto on the Kibbutz Yad-Mordekhai (named after the leader of the uprising, Mordechai Anelevich ). In April 2008, he took part in the celebration of the 65th anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto.
Awards
- Order of the Renaissance of Poland 1 degree;
- Order of Merit to the Republic of Poland 5 degrees;
- Gold Medal of the Polish Army.
Literature
- Barbara Temkin-Bermanowa "Dziennik z podziemia" (Żydowski Instytut Historyczny: "Twój Styl", Warszawa, 2000 r., ISBN 8371632894
- Władka Meed "On Both Sides of the Wall." Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto ”(Holocaust Libr., Nowy Jork, cop. 1979, ISBN 0896040135
- Helena Rufeisen-Schűpper "Pożegnanie Miłej 18. Wspomnienia łączniczki ydowskiej Organizacji Bojowej" ("Beseder", Kraków, 1996, ISBN 8386995017
- Cywia Lubetkin "Zagłada i powstanie", Warszawa, 1999
- Anka Grupińska “Ciągle po kole. Rozmowy z żydowskimi żołnierzami "(" Twój Styl ", Warszawa, 2000 r., ISBN 8371631871