Marek Edelman

Marek Edelman in 2009

Marek Edelman (1919 or 1922 – 2 October 2009) was a Jewish-Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. Before World War II, he was a General Jewish Labour Bund activist. During the war he co-founded the Jewish Combat Organization. He took part in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, becoming its leader after the death of Mordechaj Anielewicz.

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• To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
  • A True Mensch - Obituary to Marek Edelman by David Rosenberg

• Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.
  • "Warsaw Ghetto uprising leader Marek Edelman dies at 90". The Daily Telegraph. 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2009-10-04.

• The Bundists did not wait for the Messiah, nor did they plan to leave for Palestine. They believed that Poland was their country and they fought for a just, socialist Poland, in which each nationality would have its own cultural autonomy, and in which minorities' rights would be guaranteed.
  • "Warsaw Ghetto uprising leader Marek Edelman dies at 90". The Daily Telegraph. 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2009-10-04.