Given name: Josef Family name: Farber (4)

  • (1, 2, 3, 4) YES
  • (1, 2, 3, 4) Male
  • (1) Josef , (3) Josek , (4) Józef
  • (1) Farber , (2) Farber , (3) Farber , (4) Farber
  • (3) 1921
  • (1) 1943, (3) 1943 May?
  • (3) Warszawa
  • (1, 3) Warszawa
  • (1, 2, 3, 4) No information
  • (1)

    The commander of one of the Szomr combat units which took part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Died in combat

    (2)

    Deported from Aleksandrow Lodzki. Employed in Schultz's shop. His wife and daughter were deported. Took care of Rena, who was an employee in the shop. During the round-up, he took away his friend's child in a suitcase. Stood up for Lin, who was to be deported to Lublin in November 1942.

    (3)

    his father, an ironware merchant, was a declared Zionist, from 1924 to 1926, he lived in Palestine. In the ghetto, Josek worked in Landau's shop. During the uprising, he was the commander of the Haszomer Hacair combat group in the central ghetto. He was one of the fighters who managed to escape to the 'Aryan side' and who fought in the ghetto ruins until the end of May

    (4)

    One of the last commanders of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB), after 16 April 1943 in the ghetto.

    • (1) armed resistance
    • (2) workers
    • (3, 4) activists
  • (2)

    Schultz liked him.

  • (2)

    Szajn-Lewin, Ewa, Eugenia W getcie warszawskim, lipiec 1942-kwiecien 1943 (In the Warsaw Ghetto, July 1942 – April 1943)

  • (1) 212, (2) [s., 38,, 41-42], (3) 86, 231, (4) 194