Michał Klepfisz

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Michał Klepfisz
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Klepfisz's cenotaph

Michał Klepfisz (

Polish government in exile with a Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari
.

Life

Klepfisz graduated from the

interwar period he was a member of the Bund-affiliated Morgnshtern organization.[5] In 1937 he married Róża Perczykof ("Lodzia"; later known as Rose Klepfisz, 1914–2016).[6][7]

In 1942 he was put on a train to the

Holocaust).[9] They hid with a Polish woman, Maria Sawicka, a member of Żegota, who before the war had run track with Regina,[10] and who had previously hidden Klepfisz when he had left the ghetto.[11]

During the

limekiln in a factory building owned by the man.[12] Though the extent of Klepfisz's operation is unknown, in 1964, Polish workmen carrying out work on the site of the former factory unearthed 100,000 explosive-filled glass detonators for Molotov cocktails.[13]

Together with

Polish Socialist Party,WRN (Polish Socialists not associated with Moscow) sent arms into the ghetto.[2]

Klepfisz was called a "pillar of the uprising" by London radio.

Washington, DC.[9]

Michał Klepfisz was described by those who knew him as tall and thin, with a calm, quiet disposition.

Warsaw Jewish Cemetery on Okopowa Street (grave #39609),[20]
with the inscription:

Engineer Michał Klepfisz. 17 IV 1913 – 20 IV 1943. Activist of the Bund youth organization. Jewish Combat Organization representative in the Polish resistance movement. Died a heroic death in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Glory to his memory![10]

Klepfisz's sister, Regina Klepfisz, was also a Bund activist.

Holocaust and emigrated to the United States. She is a noted essayist and poet.[21] The poems "The Widow and the Daughter" and "Searching for My Father's Body" are about Michał Klepfisz.[22]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b in Polish - Bartosz Charachajczuk (2009). "Michał Klepfisz. Zdazyc przed panem Bogiem" (Michal Klepfisz. To make it before God)". Freshmind Sp z. o.o. Retrieved October 3, 2009.
  2. ^ a b c d Rotem, Harshav 2001, p. 36.
  3. ^ Eisenberg 1981, p. 366.
  4. ^ Kunert, Przewoźnik 2002, p. 264.
  5. ^ Jake Jacobs, The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, "Sport: An Overview", 2005, "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2009-10-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ a b Paulsson 2002, p. 106.
  7. ^ Kutzik, Jordan (April 15, 2016). "Remembering Archivist and Warsaw Ghetto Survivor Rose Klepfisz". The Forward. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
  8. ^ Miedzyrzecki 1979, p. 129.
  9. ^ a b c Peterson 2001, p. 208.
  10. ^ a b c Krall 1992, p. 205.
  11. ^ Klepfisz 1990, pp. 29-34.
  12. ^ a b Goldstein 1998, p. 187.
  13. ISBN 089604-007-0
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  14. ^ Kurzman 1993, p. 77.
  15. ^ Shrayer 2007, p. 478.
  16. ^ Gutman 1998, p. 214.
  17. ^ Krall, Kosicka 1996, p. 11.
  18. ^ in Polish - Eve Petniak (2009). "Heroes reportage "In time the Lord God"". ostatnidzwonek. Retrieved October 3, 2009.
  19. ^ in Polish - Hanna Krall (2009). "Heroes drugoplanowi". Baccalaureate and studies of klp.pl. Retrieved October 3, 2009.
  20. ^ "Michał Klepfisz". cemetery.jewish.org.pl. 2009. Retrieved October 3, 2009.
  21. ^ Ellis 1999, p. 73.
  22. ^ "Guilt/Anger". Dartmouth College. 2009. Archived from the original on February 27, 2009. Retrieved October 3, 2009.

References

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