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Tributes for leader of Warsaw ghetto uprising

Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising has died.

October 5, 2009 11:29
Marek Edelman: the last surviving leader of the ghetto uprising against the Nazis has died

ByJessica Elgot, Jessica Elgot

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World leaders have paid tribute to the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, who has died aged 90.

Marek Edelman was the last leader of the resistance group which organised the uprising in 1943, the most successful armed urban resistance to the Nazis during the second world war.

Edelman was one of half a million Jews forced into Europe’s largest ghetto, in Warsaw.

When the Nazis began deporting people from the ghetto in 1942, Edelman formed the ZOB (Jewish Combat Organisation- in Polish) with Mordechai Anielewicz.