Given name: Dawid Family name: Nowodworski

  • YES
  • Male
  • Dawid
  • Nowodworski
  • 1943? 1944?
  • Warszawa
  • Warszawa
  • he was one of the Jewish underground organisers. In his flat at Leszno Street No. 6 he maintained a radio monitoring for underground press. He was the founder of the kibbutz at Nalewki Street No. 23. In mid-August 1942 deported to Treblinka, he escaped from the camp and returned to the ghetto. He worked in the Landau shop. In the uprising he was the commander of the Haszomer Hacair combat group at Nowolipie Street No. 67. On 29 April he left with a group of insurgents through the sewers; he was the commander of a partisan unit in the Wyszkow forests. He came back to Warsaw in order to organise transportation of Jews to Palestine through Hungary. He was given away to the police by a Volksdeutsch. Together with Nowodworski they died: his wife Rywka Szafirsztajn, Heniek Kleinwajs, Dorka Dembinska and Szymon Szajntal.

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