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Yitzhak Zuckerman married fellow underground leader-Polish born- Zivia Luibetkin. She was born in Poland in 1914. She was one of the main commanders of the underground resistance and also helped form the ZOB. She was the only women with a high rank position in the resistance group. In 1961 she testified at the trail of Adolf Eichmann She died in Palestine in 1978.
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Yitzhak Zuckerman was one of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa also known as ZOB) and went to Poland to organize and encourage underground activities. He was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1915. He was one of the main commanders during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. He also helped provide ammunition and weapons to the ghetto uprising. He died in Palestine in 1981.
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Yitzhak Zuckerman also created the Ha-Shomer Has-Tas'ir in order to unite Zionist and Marxist forces. On December 22, 1942, Yitzhak, Gole Mire, and Adolf Liebeskind participated in an attack against a café in Cracow that was used by the Gestapo and the SS. All three men were later tracked down. Yitzhak, although shot in the leg, was the only one who survived from the three.
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The Warsaw ghetto uprising took place on April 19, 1943. There were 750 people that participated in the resistance-fighting the heavy armed Germans. On May 16, 1943 the uprising ended. 56,000 Jews were captured and about 7,000 were shot. The rest of them were deported to camps.
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On April 19th 1943, the Germans wanted to begin the final destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto but were surprised to find that the population did not show up. The ghetto fighting organization barricaded themselves in buildings. The Germans then began to burn all the buildings to force them out.
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The Warsaw ghetto uprising ended after a month of resistance when the Germans blew up the large synagogue in Warsaw, destroying the ghetto along with it.
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Yitzhak Zuckerman was also known by many different names such as Isaac Zuckerman, Icchak Cukierman, and his underground leader name Antek.
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Yitzhak Zuckerman was considered a hero after the war but soon after became an alcoholic and suffered from lots of mental anguish. In an interview he said, “If you could lick my heart, it would poison you.”
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Later in his life Yitzhak Zuckerman wrote about his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto in his book titled A Surplus of Memory.
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