Henryk Lederman
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Henryk Lederman, (born ?, died September 5, 1944 in Warsaw) - Cadet officer of the Polish Army, participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
and the Warsaw Uprising
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After the end of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Lederman was placed in the Gęsiówka
concentration camp. On the fifth day of the Warsaw Uprising Gęsiówka was liberated by a unit led by Wacław Micuta
. Henryk Lederman gathered a group of the freed prisoners and presented them to Micuta as a Jewish Battalion ready to fight. He served as a mechanic in the armored platoon headed by Micuta. Shortly thereafter he fought in Old Town where, together with David Goldman he served as a guide through the sewers which he was familiar with since the Ghetto uprising.
He was wounded in later fighting and transported to the insurgent hospital on Drewniana street, in the Riverside district. On September 5 the hospital was taken by German troops and all its patients, including Lederman, were murdered.
He was posthumously awarded the Cross of Valor.
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp....
and the Warsaw Uprising
Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army , to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The rebellion was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union's Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces...
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After the end of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Lederman was placed in the Gęsiówka
Gesiówka
Gęsiówka , was a Nazi concentration camp in Warsaw, Poland.- History of Gęsiówka :Before the war, Gęsiówka was a military prison of the Polish Army on Gęsia Street . Beginning in 1939, after the German occupation of Poland, it became a re-education camp of the German security police...
concentration camp. On the fifth day of the Warsaw Uprising Gęsiówka was liberated by a unit led by Wacław Micuta
Wacław Micuta
Wacław Micuta, also known as Wacek was a Polish economist, functionary of the United Nations and a soldier – participant in the Polish September Campaign and a commander of one of two Polish tanks in the Warsaw Uprising with the rank of first lieutenant.-Life:Micuta was born to a...
. Henryk Lederman gathered a group of the freed prisoners and presented them to Micuta as a Jewish Battalion ready to fight. He served as a mechanic in the armored platoon headed by Micuta. Shortly thereafter he fought in Old Town where, together with David Goldman he served as a guide through the sewers which he was familiar with since the Ghetto uprising.
He was wounded in later fighting and transported to the insurgent hospital on Drewniana street, in the Riverside district. On September 5 the hospital was taken by German troops and all its patients, including Lederman, were murdered.
He was posthumously awarded the Cross of Valor.