"The #CukermansGateFoundation was established on March 10, 2009, in order to preserve the #synagogue of #Bedzin.

In 2024, the foundation gained ownership of the Bedzin #GhettoFightersHouse, where a local branch of the #JewishCombatOrganization (formed in 1941 on the advice of #MordechaiAnielewicz, who later fought and was most likely killed during the #WarsawGhettouprising), fought back against the #Nazis ahead of the #ghetto's liquidation in August 1943.

The #Będzinuprising was led by 29-year-old #FrumkaPłotnicka, who had only weeks earlier fought in the #WarsawGhetto uprising.

All of those who fought at the house were killed by the Nazis, and as soon as the uprising ended, the remaining #Jewish residents were taken to #Auschwitz."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-897559

Are you a Jewish person who had some myths about Hanukkah dispelled recently (say, by @swordsjew 's great piece)? Has the pervasive narrative that European Jews allowed themselves to get genocided always bothered you?

Then do I have some great news for you! Instead of spending Chanukah memorializing some wildly distorted history almost everyone had forgotten until recently, you can use this time to learn about the brave Jews who were in the Jewish Combat Organization (ZOB, polish acronym) and defended our people against Nazi murder in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943.

Personally, I like to think about Marek Edelman, a Bundist and anti-zionist his whole life. He commanded the ZOB around the time of the uprising, escaped the ghetto (and deportation to the camps), took part in the Warsaw uprising of 1944, and continued to live in Poland under communist rule despite antisemitism in the 1960s (connected to the Six-day War), then helped the Solidarnosc independent union during the 80s. He saw himself as the guardian of his comrades' graves in Warsaw until his death in 2009.

Marek and others like him are what Jewish resistance to antisemitism and genocide look like today, not in some made up past that has almost no connection to you or me today.

#JewishBund #JewishCombatOrganization #MarekEdelman #WarsawGhettoUprising