Akshar Tamhankar
Mrs. Chapley
8th Grade Advanced ELA
14 March 2023
Mordechai Anielewich
In the first month of the year 1943, a young man named Mordechai Anielewicz led an armed rebellion against the Nazi regime. In the chaos of the surprise deportations, Mordechai commanded a group of resistance fighters in a major street battle. Even before the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Mordechai was a major advocate for armed resistance. He transformed some youth groups into active armed resistance cells, and set up underground newspapers to report on the truth. He also started self defense organizations to teach people how to fight back against the Nazi regime. He had left the Warsaw Ghetto for the summer during the first mass deportations. When the young
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According to Michael Berenbaum, who is the director of the Sigi Ziering Institute, and was fact checked by Encyclopaedia Britannica, “...Anielewicz’s view prevailed, and the Jewish Fighting Organization (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ŻOB) was founded. Anielewicz was the obvious choice to command the ŻOB.” (Berenbaum, paragraph 3). There were many opportunities to save himself from an untimely fate. In a bold act of selflessness, he returned to the Warsaw Ghetto District to fight the invaders that have imposed their malevolent will on innocent people. He commanded them, and was successfully able to hold the Nazis back …show more content…
The man smiled, knowing that just a few more people would be spared the horrors of Nazi persecution. During the Holocaust, many oppressed people accepted their fate, and submitted themselves to Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Mordechai Anielwicz inspired the Polish underground to rebel, and many people see him as a symbol of courage and sacrifice. He proved to the world that even under intense oppression, people will stay strong. Even nowadays, people learn about this man and use his teaching to fight for their beliefs, though not with arms. Millions of people visit his memorial, and many thank him for what he