Given name: Izrael Chaim Family name: Wilner

  • YES
  • Male
  • Izrael Chaim
  • Wilner
  • ps. Arie, Jurek
  • 1943-05-08
  • Warszawa
  • Warszawa
  • He was the head of the kibbutz at Nalewki Street No. 23. He was sent with a mission to Krakow and Czestochowa at the end of 1942; liaised between ZOB (the Jewish Fighting Organization) and Armia Krajowa (the Home Army). Arrested by the Gestapo in March 1942; despite the tortures he did not turn anybody in. He managed to escape from the labour camp in Rembertow. On 8 May 1943 he committed suicide in the bunker at Mila Street No. 18. [from the catalogue 'Survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto...', p. 30-31]

  • activists
  • 214; 231; 239; 305"