Adolf Berman

Adolf Berman Abraham (Hebrew: אדולף אברהם ברמן, even Avraham Berman, born October 17, 1906 in Warsaw, of his time in the Russian empire, † February 3, 1978 in Tel Aviv, Israel ) was a Polish- Israeli politician and activist.

Biography

Berman visited the Warsaw University and received his doctorate there in philosophy. During his studies, he joined the Marxist- Zionist organization Poale Zion at and published two magazines, one in Polish and one in Yiddish.

During the Second World War, he was one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in the Warsaw ghetto and was a member of the Presidium of the National Committee. He acted in addition as Secretary General of the underground organization Żegota whose objective it was to keep Jews from the Holocaust, as well as the children's charity Tsentum in Warsaw.

After the war he became a Member of the Sejm and 1947 Chairman of the Central Committee of Polish Jews. Berman was forced to resign from his post as chairman forcibly in April 1949 because he was a Zionist. In 1950, he went to Israel, where he joined the socialist party Mapam. He was elected after the elections in 1951 as a deputy in the Knesset, but he left on 20 February 1952, the Mapam and formed together with the Arabs and Moshe Sneh Rostam Bastuni the Left faction. On November 1, 1954 Berman joined the Communist Party of Israel at ( Maki ) and was a member of the Central Committee. According to the Knesset elections of 1955 he lost his parliamentary seat.

In 1961, Berman testified at trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel. He pointed to the court a pair of children's shoes that he picks up on the fields of Treblinka. He was a member of the Bureau of the World Organization of Jewish partisans and former prisoners of the Nazis. Berman died in 1978 at the age of 71 years. He was married to Barbara Tamkin - Bermanowa; his older brother Jakub was considered Stalin's right hand in Poland.