Hirsch Berlinski

Hersz Berliński (also Hirsz or deer Berliński; pseudonyms Herszek or Jeleń; * 1908 in Łódź, † September 27, 1944 in Warsaw ) was an activist in the Jewish resistance movement in Poland during World War II. He was a member of Poalej Syjon - Lewica, survived the ghetto uprising in 1943 and fell during the Warsaw Uprising the following year.

Life

Berliński came from a Jewish working class family in Łódź. He went to cheder and a primary school. In 1923 he became a member of the Jewish youth organization Cukunft that was attached to the General Jewish Labour Bund. The following year he moved to the Poalej Syjon - Lewica whose militia commander he was in Łódź.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was arrested on the way to Warsaw and imprisoned in camps in Rawa Mazowiecka and Częstochowa. After he escaped from there, he lived from 1940 in the Warsaw ghetto. He worked in the Landau factory. In the Warsaw Poalej Syjon - Lewica he became one of the most important functionaries: Party secretary and head of the underground press. He founded the conspiratorial youth organization Młodzież Borochowa ( Yiddish: Borochov Jugent ). After the first great deportation action, he became one of the most active members of the Jewish Fighting Organization ( ŻOB ); he represented his party in the staff of ŻOB and took over the management of the planning department. During the ghetto uprising he led a unit of Poalej Syjon - Lewica and was at first - together with Marek Edelman - in the combat zone of the brush factory at Ulica Świętojerska used. Later he fought in the ghetto center. On 10 May 1943, he was - a few days before the final suppression of the Jewish revolt - escape with some other fighters through the sewer system from the ghetto. He joined the living to Warsaw partisans in the forests.

In the struggles of the Warsaw Uprising he fell on 27 September 1944 as a member of the ŻOB used in Żoliborz district. On April 19, 1945 the Military Merit him Virtuti Militari awarded posthumously, and on April 29, his remains were buried in the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa road (sector 39) in Warsaw. In the old city of Łódź, there are named after him Ulica Hersza Berlińskiego.