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August 24, 1919
On this day, August 24, 1919, Tosia Altman was born in Lipno. She later served as a Hashomer Hatzair courier during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Some records give 1918.
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December 28, 1918
On this day, December 28, 1918, Eta Wrobel was born in Łuków, Poland. She later helped lead a Jewish partisan unit.
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March 14, 1918
On this day, March 14, 1918, Abba Kovner was born in Sevastopol. He later led resistance in the Vilna ghetto and testified at the Eichmann trial.
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Yoel Palgi, born Emil Nussbacher in Cluj, was born in 1918. Biographical records do not agree on the day.
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December 13, 1915
On this day, December 13, 1915, Yitzhak Zuckerman, known as Antek, was born in Vilna. He later helped lead the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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March 12, 1915
On March 12, 1915, Jewish refugees in Alexandria signed a resolution to form a Jewish legion and offer it to Britain.
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August 29, 1910
On this day, August 29, 1910, Georges Loinger was born in Strasbourg. He later helped about 350 Jewish children escape from occupied France into Switzerland.
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Henryk Ross, later an official photographer in the Łódź ghetto who also made a secret record of ghetto life, was born in Warsaw in 1910. The exact day is not confirmed.
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December 31, 1908
On this day, December 31, 1908, Simon Wiesenthal was born in Buczacz. After surviving Mauthausen he spent decades documenting Nazi crimes.
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August 3, 1902
On this day, August 3, 1902, Regina Jonas was born in Berlin. In 1935 she became the first woman known to have been ordained as a rabbi.
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August 12, 1889
On August 12, 1889, Eleazar Lipa Sukenik was born in Białystok. He later identified the age of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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July 22, 1878
On this day, July 22, 1878, Henryk Goldszmit, later Janusz Korczak, was born in Warsaw. He directed an orphanage and was deported with the children to Treblinka in 1942.
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