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Article: 'No Easy Moments' for a Leader Of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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- October 4, 2009
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Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising, the first armed Jewish revolt against Nazi troops during
World War II, died Oct. 2 at a friend's home in Warsaw at the age of
90. The cause of death was not reported.
During four weeks in 1943, Dr. Edelman and a few hundred young
residents of the walled ghetto in which Jewish residents of Warsaw
were confined took up arms and waged one of the most heroic, if
doomed, battles of the war. They braved overwhelming odds to make
quick guerrilla strikes on Nazi forces, armed only with a few
pistols, rifles and homemade bombs. For a time, they were able to
halt the mass deportations that had sent hundreds of thousands of
Jews ...