Given name: Szmuel Family name: Bresław

He came from an educated family with Zionist traditions. From 1925 he lived in Warsaw. After the outbreak of war he went to Vilnius. He returned to Warsaw in 1940. A columnist, he dealt with research concerning the attitude of youth in the Warsaw ghetto. One of the leaders of Haszomer Hacair , the editor of the organization's underground printings. A member of the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB). He died after being arrested (while carrying out a mission connected with founding the place where Jozef Kaplan, who was arrested the same day, was taken from) in Gesia Street. He attacked with a knife an armed German sitting in a car. Burried on 4 September 1942 in the Jewish cemetery in Gesia Street.