April 24, 1943
Rabbi Menachem Ziemba Is Killed
Historical context
On this day, April 24, 1943, Rabbi Menachem Ziemba was shot in the Warsaw ghetto while fleeing a fire during the uprising.
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- April 24, 1943
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On this day, during the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Rabbi Menachem Ziemba was shot as he fled a burning building. He had been a Warsaw rabbinic authority, had stayed in the ghetto, and had come to support armed resistance after the 1942 deportations to Treblinka.
His family was later deported to Treblinka. In 1958 his remains were taken from a temporary ghetto burial and reburied in Jerusalem. This article dates the 24 April 1943 killing, five days after the uprising began.
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Sources and further reading
- The 70th yahrtzeit of Rabbi Menachem Ziemba’s martyrdom: A tribute to a Warsaw Ghetto legacy · Alan Jay Gerber · The Jewish Star (2013-07-17) View source
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