Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa

Jewish Fighting Organization

Identifier: 329
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

Founded in 1942-07-28

History

Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa was set up in 1942. A more broad-based Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa was set up on 1942-10-15. The political leadership of ŻOB was the Żydowski Komitet Narodowy (Jewish National Committee), and the organization had about 500 members. Its units fought in the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto under the command of Mordechaj Anielewicz.

Places

Founded in Poland.

Sources

The Warsaw ghetto : a guide to the perished city / B. Engelking, J. Leociak. – New Haven, 2009. – p. 841

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Frumka Plotnicka
- פרומקה פלוטניצקה
- EHRI Personalities
- Person
- 1914-1943
- Updated 7 years ago
Plotnicka Frumka (1914-1943) one of the leaders of HeHalutz underground movement in Poland. From early youth she was a member of and activist in the ""Dror"" Zionist movement. After the outbreak of the war along with other members of hakhsharot (Zionist training farms) she reached the Soviet occupied territories and in 1940 was called back to the German occupation zone with a group of ""Dror"" leaders to establish the underground network for the movement. From June 1940 onwards Plotnicka traveled throughout Poland, even to the most remote ghettoes to strenghten the underground network. In S...
Gwardia Ludowa
- Polish Peoples Army
- Polska Armia Ludowa
- GL
- PAL
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 8 years ago
Founded in 1943-04

The Gwardia Ludowa is a Polish communist underground organization, established in 1943-04 under Soviet sponsorship. This group, also known as the Polish Peoples Army, welcomed Jews into their ranks. An estimated 1,700 Jews were killed fighting for the Gwardia Ludowa. This army supplied small arms to the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Jewish Fighting Organization), during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The GL never integrated with the Armia Krajowa.
Kommandeur der SIPO und SD für den Distrikt Radom records (Sygn.184)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn504114
- English
- 1939-1944
- 6 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains information about the activities of the police and Gestapo in the area of Radom, including investigations of members of various underground movements, the organization of the Gestapo, the investigation of Communists, and prisoners found guilty of resistance who were sentenced to concentration camps.
Lubetkin Zivia
- Lubetkin, Cywia
- Lubetkin, Zivia
- Lubetkin-Zuckerman, Zivia.
- Tsuḳerman, Tsivyah Lubeṭḳin-
- Lubeṭḳin-Tsuḳerman, Tsivyah
- ...
- EHRI Personalities
- Person
- Updated 7 years ago
09/11/1914

11/07/1978

Founder of Jewish Fighting Organisation in occupied Poland (ZOB). Fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Michal Klepfisz collection
1. Michal Klepfisz collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn548843
- English
- 1944
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Michal Klepfisz consists of a 1944 letter sent from the Polish Government in Exile in London to Rose Klepfisz in Stockholm concerning the death of her husband, Michal Klepfisz, death in the Warsaw. Also includes an affidavit sent from the ŻOB (Jewish Fighting Organization) attesting to Michal Klepfisz's activities with the ŻOB, and the text of a decoded telegram reading "Michal Klepfisz of Bund, who was hidden on the Aryan side and working to produce explosives for the Warsaw Ghetto, was a representative of ZOB for the Polish Underground. The day before the Ghetto Uprising, he entered t...
Salo Fiszgrund collection Spuścizna Salo Fiszgrunda (Sygn. 331)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47523
- English
- 1946-1966
- 136 digital images, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains papers of Salo Fiszgrund (1893-1971), a Bund activist in Krakὀw in the1920s. Includes correspondence with Szymon Zachariasz, testimonies relating to the trial of Lieber Gotlob, in which Salo Fiszgrund was a witness, newspaper clippings, an issue of a „Biuletyn Komisji Historycznej przy Komitecie Centralnym Bundu” (“Bulletin of the Historical Commission at the Central Committee of Bund”) of 1946, as well as fragments of notes other publications.
Selected records of the General Jewish Labor Federation "Bund" in Poland Ogólno Żydowski Związek Robotniczy Bund w Polsce (Sygn.1214)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607806
- English
- 1900-1948
- 6,482 digital images, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Records of the activities of the the Central Committee of the Jewish Workers Federation "Bund" in Poland and abroad between 1900-1948. The collection contains circular letters, proclamations, reports, posters, appeals, photographs, press articles, a list of confiscated newspaper “Fołkscajtung”, correspondence, minutes, testimnonies, bulletins, accounts, memoirs, and card files.
Żydowski Komitet Narodowy
- Jewish National Committee
- ŻKN
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 1 decade ago
The political leadership of Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa was the Żydowski Komitet Narodowy, and the organization had about 500 members. Its units fought in the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto under the command of Mordechaj Anielewicz.