Mordechai Tenenbaum

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Mordechai Tenenbaum
Białystok Ghetto Uprising
Battles/warsWorld War II

Mordechai Tenenbaum (

Białystok Ghetto Uprising
.

Early life

Mordechaj Tenenbaum was born in

Zionist youth circles since his childhood, Tenenbaum joined the Poale Zion
youth movement in 1935.

After the outbreak of

Vilna
, to engage in activities among Jewish youth.

There, he organized the

Wilno and Warsaw
.

Vilna and the Warsaw Ghetto

In

Vilna, under Soviet occupation (1940–1941), he continued to work to save Jewish youth, by providing them with certificates. Tenenbaum himself had a forged identity card in the name of a "Tatar
" from the Vilnius region, named Tamaroff, a family name that also mentioned the name of his girlfriend, Tema Schneiderman.

This borrowed identity allowed him more free movement, including all territories under Nazi control. Even after the

YKA, and among the organizers and planners of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
.

Białystok Ghetto uprising

Main article:
Białystok Ghetto Uprising

In November 1942, Tenenbaum went on a mission to Białystok, intending to serve as the head of the Haganah movement. There, he organized the Jewish underground fighters, and headed the local resistance movement, which included members of Hashomer Hatzair and Dror.

It was then decided, that with the start of an action by the Germans to "liquidate" the ghetto, the resistance would fight in the streets of Białystok, before attempting to escape to the forests, and continue operating as underground partisans. The Ghetto underwent a number of major operations during 1943, and members of the underground who remained there, felt that they were the last fighters, following the liquidation of the ghettos in Warsaw, Będzin and Częstochowa. 1 German was killed February 4, 1943[1]

Armed with only twenty-six rifles, one machine gun, roughly one hundred pistols, and several

SS battalion against them. On the night of August 15, 1943, the Germans began to encircle the ghetto as the uprising began. During the uprising, Tenenbaum and his comrades fought for five days against the German forces, rupturing Wehrmacht supply lines, and succeeding in diverting German soldiers and military police groups from the East. This would help allow the Red Army to march westwards to Poland. 9 Germans were wounded[2]

The evacuation plan to Lublin had failed, upon the total encirclement of the ghetto. At the end of the fighting, Tenenbaum and his close friend Moszkowicz committed suicide, in order to not fall into the hands of the Nazis.

Of the nearly 50,000 Jewish inhabitants of the

World War 2
.

Legacy

After the war, to honor Tenenbaum and the uprising, a square in Białystok was named after him.

References

  1. ^ Black Book of Russian Jewry .p.202
  2. ISBN 9781584657293
    . Retrieved 19 March 2015.
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