SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mordechai Anielewicz

1919 - 1943

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Mordechai Anielewicz (Hebrew: מרדכי אנילביץ'; 1919 – 8 May 1943) was the Polish leader of the Jewish Combat Organization (Polish: Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB) during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish resistance movement during the Second World War. Anielewicz inspired further rebellions in both ghettos and extermination camps with his leadership. His character was engraved as a symbol of courage and sacrifice, and was a major figure of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mordechai Anielewicz is the 140th most popular social activist (down from 125th in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Poland (down from 213th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Social Activist.

Mordechai Anielewicz was a Polish Jew who was the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He was a member of the Zionist Socialist Workers Party.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mordechai Anielewicz ranks 140 out of 840. Before him are Hans Scholl, Stokely Carmichael, Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Emilie Schindler, Kasturba Gandhi, and Al-Mu'tazz. After him are Yelena Bonner, Marianne Bachmeier, Ishikawa Goemon, Alfred Naujocks, Abbé Pierre, and Cesar Chavez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Mordechai Anielewicz ranks 43. Before him are Hans-Joachim Marseille, James M. Buchanan, Jennifer Jones, Gerhard Barkhorn, Oleg Penkovsky, and César Manrique. After him are Martin Balsam, Boris Shcherbina, Lex Barker, Jackie Robinson, Godfrey Hounsfield, and Mohamed Boudiaf. Among people deceased in 1943, Mordechai Anielewicz ranks 34. Before him are Jean Moulin, Gustav Vigeland, Etty Hillesum, Otto Jespersen, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, and Hans Scholl. After him are Aurel Stein, Oskar Schlemmer, André Antoine, Charley Paddock, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Nordahl Grieg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Mordechai Anielewicz ranks 227 out of 1,694. Before him are Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Carl Wernicke (1848), Mieszko II Lambert (990), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Catherine Opalińska (1680), and Yisrael Kristal (1903). After him are Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Henryk Górecki (1933), Przemysł II (1257), Wanda Landowska (1879), Robert Luther (1822), and Ernst Toller (1893).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Mordechai Anielewicz ranks 4. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), and Irena Sendler (1910). After him are Jan Karski (1914), Leopold Trepper (1904), Czesława Kwoka (1943), Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Franceska Mann (1917), and Danuta Wałęsa (1949).

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