Mordecai+Anielewicz

The holocaust was an awful and tragic event in WWII when the Nazis hunted and killed people of Jewish religion, for they were not pure German, as Adolph Hitler believed. There are many heroes of the holocaust who did amazing things, but have any of the ones you've heard of any of them who were soldiers and commanders under the age of twenty four.

Mordecai Anielewicz, also known as the little angel, was a great commander and leader of an anti Nazi organization who later would become a great hero in history. Like many fairy tale heroes Mordecai started out as a poor child born into a poor, Jewish, working class family in the poor neighborhood of Wyszkow in the year of 1919, but even though he was poor that didn't mean he didn't stand up for others. Even writers from the New World Encyclopedia say “Even at a young age Anielewicz was know for standing up to bullying”(Mordecai Anielewicz, N.W.E). Among his peers he was obviously singled out as a leader and was mainly the alpha of most of his peers. At a young age he became a member of Betar ,Revisionist zionist youth movement, and even later ,after graduating high school, he became leader of Hashomer Hatzair.

Shortly after that time the Nazis invaded Poland in September of 1939. Luckily Little Angel was able to escape with a few members of his youth movement group to eastern Poland. Little Angel and his crew were able to escape to Romania where they all started making a safe passage for Jews from Romania to Mandatory Palestine, now Israel. His plans had been working but sadly he was caught and thrown in prison for helping people escape. After being released he took an enormous risk and entered Vilna which by then was already under Soviet control.

Fortunately he and his girlfriend ,Mira Fucher, returned to Poland in the year of 1940 during January. When returning to Poland he and Mira started making an underground army and organizing underground hearings to get the word out that they were going to fight back against the Nazis. After a short period of time Mordecai and Mira returned to Warsaw Ghetto. This was a place where the Nazis allowed Jews to live, but then later randomly they would march in and begin killing Jews. Whenever Mordecai tried to explain that living here was all simply a trap to ensure their demise he was brushed off as if he were a pesky fly.

Upon their arrival Mordecai was surprised to find that only sixty thousand out of thirty five hundred thousand Jews had been abducted and taken to concentration camps, and only two hundred ninety thousand of his beloved people were still in the Ghetto when he arrived. During his time at the Ghetto Mordecai kept a steady connection with the annexed polish government in London in order to obtain weapons for his constantly growing army. The writers at the site of the Jewish Virtual Library were probably astounded and proud to say “The resistance was lead in two points. Anielewicz commanded the battle in the main street. The fighters joined the deported and when they got a signal between the streets Zamenhof and Niska they attacked the escort. The Jews escaped and dispersed.”. This was a major event in history because this got many other people involved and was a stepping stone into fighting back against Germany. In the month of April 1943 the Jews heard of the Germans plans to deport the rest of their people to Deportation camps and this sparked the flame of Warsaw’s Ghetto Uprising.

During the next few weeks armed with less than one hundred weapons man women and children fought back against Germany in this great uprising in which Mordecai was the leader. After this dramatic affair many of the Jews dispersed and hid. Unfortunately our young hero’s life came to an end when he and hi girlfriend, realizing being found was inevitable committed suicide on the night of May eighth 1943 at the young age of twenty four died as a young hero of the Holocaust. He wasn't just a hero because he was a leader but because he gave his life rather than being captured to remain of the Jewish religion.



Works Cited [|Jewish Virtual Library,American-Israeli cooperative enterprise, December 8 ,2014] [|New World Encyclopedia.com, New World Encyclopedia, December 8, 2014] [|eilatgordinlevitan.com,wikipedia,December 8 2014]

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