Given name: Pola Family name: Elster

  • YES
  • Female
  • Pola
  • Elster
  • Warsaw Uprising; September 1944
  • Warszawa
  • party activist in Poale Zion-Left; in youth she was a member of Haszomer Hacair; he was the head of one of the first and biggest popular kitchens; she played an important role in the underground; she edited party press in Polish; after the uprising in the ghetto she was sent to the camp in Poniatow Lubelski. Poale Zion activists on the "Aryan side" managed to take her out from the camp to Warsaw; she was in the undergound leadership of the party; later she was Berman's deputy in the Polish underground parliament KRN (State National Council); she fought in the Warsaw Uprising and died armed in September 1944

  • activists
  • str.56,190,191