Antek + Zivia Zuckerman
Persons, originating from Poland

Antek and Zivia Zuckerman



Antek was a nickname. He is also known as Icchak Cukierman.
Born 1915 in Vilnius.
Died 1981 in Kibbutz Lohamey ha-Geta'ot in Israel.
He was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during World War II.

Zivia Zuckerman, wife of Antek.
Born as Zivia Lubetkin in 1914 in Poland.
Died in 1978 in Israel.

In 1941 Antek became the deputy commander of the ŻOB resistance organisation. In this capacity, he served mainly as the envoy between the commander of ŻOB and the commanders of the Polish resistance organisations. In 1943,
Zuckerman as a witness in the trial against Adolf Eichmann.   
 

he was a crucial link between resistance forces within the ghetto and those outside the walls. During the later Warsaw Uprising of 1944, he led a small troop of 322 survivors of the Ghetto Uprising as they fought the Germans. In 1947 he settled in what would soon be Israel. He died in the kibbutz he had founded.
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Polonica stamps:

Israel 1985, 02 IV