Rozka Korczak
Rozka or Ruzka Korczak (1921, Płock – 1988) was a Polish Jewish partisan leader during World War II. She served in the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye) and, alongside Vitka Kempner and founder Abba Kovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Avengers (Nokmim)--the only known undefeated ghetto uprising in the history of the Holocaust.
Early life
Korczak was born in April 1921 in Bieslko, to a cattle dealer.[1] Her family moved to a small village in Plosk where she attended public school.[2] In eighth grade, she organized a Jewish student strike to protest Anti-Semetism in the school.[1] As a teenager, she joined a Zionist organization called HaShomer HaTzair.[2]
Career
In 1939, Korczak met Vitka Kempner in Vilna and the two joined The Young Guard, a Jewish rebellion group.[3] Upon Germany's invasion of Poland, she co-founded the United Partisan Organization (FPO) in 1942.[4] They smuggled weapons into the Vilna Ghetto and smuggled Jews out.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Rozka Korczak-Marla". jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
- ^ a b Paul R. Bartrop; Steven Leonard Jacobs (December 17, 2014). Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection. ABC-CLIO. p. 1288. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
- ^ a b Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present - Bernard A. Cook - Google Books
- ^ "ROZKA KORCZAK-MARLA". jwa.org. Retrieved January 24, 2020.