A True Mensch

Guest Post by David Rosenberg “To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors”. The author of these words was the Bundist Marek Edelman who has just died aged 90. He was one of the commanders of the ZOB – the Jewish Fighting Organisation that led the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943. Edelman's funeral in Warsaw on Friday To anti-fascists and human rights activists around the world he was a hero – plain and simple. He wrote one of the earliest Holocaust mem

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