Edelman Marek

  • Edelman, Marek, 1919-2009
  • Edelman, Marek
  • Edelman, Marek, 1922-2009
  • Edelman, M. (1922-2009).
  • Edelmann, Marek 1919-2009
  • ...
Identifier
000099
Type of Entity
Person

Dates of Existence

1921

02/10/2009

History

Jewish-Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. Co-founder of ZOB. He took part in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, becoming its leader after the death of Mordechaj Anielewicz. He also took part in the city-wide 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Before his death on 2 October 2009 Edelman was the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Places

  • Homyel’, Belarus or Warsaw, Poland?

  • Warsaw, Poland

Sources

  • Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / ed. I. Gutman. - New York : Macmillan, 1990. Vol 1/2, p. 415