Given name: Chana Family name: Płotnicka

  • YES
  • Female
  • Chana
  • Płotnicka
  • 1918-03-04
  • 1943-04-20
  • Płotnice koło Płońska
  • Warszawa
  • She descended from a Hassidic family, her father traded in cattle. In 1920, after the pogrom in Plotnice, her family settled in Pinsk. Chana didn't go to any school. She was an activist of a youth organization Freiheit. At the beginning of 1939 she was sent by the organisation to Lvov, Bialystok and Warsaw. In the first months of 1942, she came to Bedzin and lived on the "Aryan side". In March 1943 she returned to Warsaw. During the uprising she was in Toebbens's and Schultz's shops. On 20 April she tried to get out of the ghetto, helped by Gordonia fighters. The whole combat group was taken to Leszno Street No. 80, from where people were taken to the Umschlagplatz. The fighters, pretending to be willing to reveal the hideouts, pulled a policeman into a gateway and started to shoot. In this fight Meir Szwarc was wounded and Chaba was killed.

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