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Farewell to Mr. Edelman

the last insurgent of the Warsaw ghetto is dead

Marek Edelman, the leader of the first European armed rebellion against the Nazis ended up with the murder or deportation into the lagers of over 55,000 Jews. The only survivor among the leaders of the insurgency, Edelman became the leader of the Solidarność movement against the dictatorship of POland's Communist government and after the 1981 Coup he was a prisoner of general Jaruzelski.
In the name of the democratic and international ideals which characterized the whole of his life, in the 90es he took the side of the population of Sarajevo during the Serbian siege.
Marek Edelman devoted his life to keeping the memory of those who fought to safeguard human dignity. He was an ethical reference point for thousands Polish youths.
Decorated in Poland with the Order of the White Eagle, the highest civil distinction, in 2009 he received the Legion of Honor.

Marek Edelman wrote two books:
Resisting the Holocaust: Fighting Back in the Warsaw Ghetto
Shielding the Flame


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