Mordechai Anielewicz, a Leader of The Zob

In Warsaw, during 1919, a hero was born. That hero is Mordecai Anielewicz. Mordechai Anielewicz was the leader of the ZOB and the cause of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He was an inspiration, a warrior, and an angel.Anielewicz was born in 1919 in Poland. He was born into a poor working class family. He had two sisters and one brother. On September 7, 1939, a week after the war started, Anielewicz escaped with his youth movement friends from Warsaw to the east of Poland, thinking that the Polish army would hold the German attack.

On September 17, the Soviets controlled the eastern areas of Poland. Anielewicz tried to cross the border to Romania to open a way for youngsters leave to Israel. Anielewicz was apprehended and imprisoned in a Soviet jail. After, he was released and was put into the Warsaw Ghetto.The ZOB (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa)was formed in November of 1943 to end the shipping of Jews in the Warsaw ghettos to the Nazi death camps. They were also known as the Jewish Fighters Organization. When the deportation to extermination camps started in the Warsaw Ghetto at that point Anielewicz was stationed in the south-west region of Poland that was given to Germany trying to organize an armed defense.

At his return, he found only 60,000 Jews from 350,000, and a ""Jews Fighter Organization"", without any weapons and with a lot of problems, Anielewicz started to reorganize the group with great success because there was much support for the idea of fighting after the major deportation of all the underground groups. The next thing he did was create a public committee and a coordination committee.

In November 1942 Anielewicz was elected as chief commander. Until January 1943, a few fighter groups of youth movement members were in the ghetto. A connection with the Polish army commanded from London was made and weapons were supplied from the Polish side of the city. Hielman, Anna. “Mordechai Anielewicz.” (accessed January 16, 2018).The Uprising began in April 1943 after ZOB fired upon Nazi soldiers taking people away for deportation. Of course, this sparked anger in the Nazi government, so they sent many troops to the ghetto.

On May 8, 1943, the Nazi general, Jurgen Stroop, sent armored personnel carriers and tanks to break through the ZOB’s defenses. After the Nazi’s broke through, the streets were overrun by Nazi soldiers. In the safety of his bunker, Anielewicz and his girlfriend supposedly committed suicide. Anielewicz was a hero and a standard of bravery and honor. He served the people of the ghetto and was a great soldier who defended his rights as a human and his friends and family. He deserves to be known throughout history.