Dawid Wdowiński

David Wdowinski דוד וודובינסקי
Born	1895 Będzin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died	1970 Tel Aviv, Israel
Occupation	Historian, author
Notable works	And We Are Not Saved

Dawid (David) Wdowiński (1895–1970) was a

Early life

Dawid Wdowiński was born in 1895 in

Before World War II, Wdowiński gave up psychiatry through the influence of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who urged him to devote himself fully to the cause of Revisionist Zionism.^[1] Wdowiński became a chairman of the Revisionist Zionist party called Polska Partia Syjonistyczna.

World War II

In the summer of 1942, during the

After the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Wdowiński was sent to various Nazi concentration camps, which he survived.^[1]

Post-war

After the war, Wdowiński settled in the

In 1961, Wdowiński served as a witness at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.^[1]

The situation with the historical record led Wdowiński, in 1963, to publish his own memoir, And We Are Not Saved, in which he writes about his involvement with the ŻZW and the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.^[7] Wdowiński was fiercely opposed to Jewish collaboration with Germany inside the ghettos, or any post-war reconciliation with them. This theme pervades his memoirs as well as his correspondence.^[8]

Death

Dawid Wdowiński died in 1970 after suffering a heart attack at a commemoration ceremony in Tel Aviv for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.^[1] He was buried in the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery.^[9]

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