Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw
Ghettto on the site of part of the original Jewish ghetto
Mordechai
Anielewicz--Soul of the Uprising
Shortly before his death in the
bunker at 18 Mila Street on May 8, 1943, Mordechai Anielewicz wrote
in a letter:
"Be well, my friend! Perhaps we
will see one another again. The most important thing is that my
life's dream has come true. Jewish self-defense in the ghetto
has been realized. Jewish retaliation and resistance has become
a fact. I have been witness to the magnificent heroic battle of
Jewish fighters."
Emmanuel Ringelblum, who preserved
the most important records from this time, wrote of Anielewicz:
"Mordechai threw himself into
the defense activity with all his zeal. Together with other
groups and parties the Fighter's Organization was created, at
whose head the coordinating commission of the political
organization placed Comrade Mordechai. . . . Mordeachai was the
soul of the organization, one of its most devoted workers."
