A Jewish Fighter Remembers the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising

(Tablet) Part 1 - Haika Grossman - A heroic chapter in the dark history of the annihilation of European Jewry was written by teenagers with guns. Haika Grossman, who turned 20 just after the Nazi conquest of Poland, was a leader of the youth wing of the socialist Hashomer Hatzair Zionist party. She became a key courier between the ghettos of Poland, and helped organize the Bialystok Ghetto uprising. To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the uprising, we present two excerpts from her account, The Underground Army.


2018-08-24 00:00:00

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