One of the great heroes of World War II, Marek Edelman, died on October 2, 2009. He was the last surviving leader of Warsaw’s ill-fated 1943 Jewish ghetto uprising.Marek Edelman (1919-2009).That struggle against unbeatable odds was sparked by the realisation that those still inside the ghetto were being removed by the Nazis to be gassed at the Treblinka death-camp north-east of Warsaw.Despite their eventual defeat, Edelman and a handful of combatants managed to survive and escape.Edelman was als…
