Given name: Hanoch Family name: Gutman

  • YES
  • Male
  • Hanoch
  • Gutman
  • Henoch
  • 1919
  • 1943
  • Łódź
  • Warszawa
  • Activist of the Zionist movement, Dror's member. After the outbreak of the war, he arrived in the Warsaw ghetto. He was active in the commune at Dzielna Street No. 34, he conducted underground seminars and organised self-defence groups in the ghetto in Hrubieszow. In August 1942, he took part in unsuccessful attempt on policeman Szmerling's life. He participated in the first fights in the Warsaw ghetto in January 1943. In the uprising, he was in charge of a combat group in brushmakers' shop, which was generally under Marek Edelman's command. On 2 May, he was gravely wounded in fight for a bunker in Franciszkanska Street No. 30. He didn't manage to go through the sewers - he stayed in the ghetto with his girlfriend, Fejcze (Cipora) Rabow. Details of his death are not known.

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