Izrael Kanal
Izrael Kanał, also known as Mietek and Jehuda,[1] was a Jewish resistance soldier in the Warsaw Ghetto and a participant of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
Biography
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Izrael Kanał was born in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He was a member of the Zionist organization Akiba.[2] Kanał served in the Jewish Ghetto Police under the command of Józef Szeryński. On August 21, 1942, he carried out a failed assassination attempt on Szeryński in his apartment at Nowolipki Street in Warsaw.[3] Szeryński was severely wounded with two bullets but survived.[4] The attack was a consequence of the death sentence declared on Szeryński by the Jewish Combat Organization for collaboration with the Germans. During the ghetto uprising in April 1943, Kanał was the commander[5] of JCO fighters in the Central Ghetto.[6] On May 10, 1943, along with a group of Jewish fighters, he was evacuated outside the ghetto walls by the Polish resistance. He was later arrested by the Germans and presumably murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943.
Recognition
[edit]The name of Izrael Kanał is shown on the commemorative plaque placed at Monument to the Evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto Fighters at 51 Prosta Street in Warsaw.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Bartoszewski, Władysław (1984). 1859 dni Warszawy (in Polish). Znak. ISBN 9788370061524.
- ^ Apfelbaum, Marian (2007). Two Flags: Return to the Warsaw Ghetto. Gefen Publishing House Ltd. ISBN 9789652293565.
- ^ Kerenji, Emil (2014-10-10). Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1942–1943 (in Arabic). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442236271.
- ^ Dawidowicz, Lucy S. (1976). A Holocaust Reader. Behrman House, Inc. p. 367. ISBN 9780874412369.
Izrael Kanal.
- ^ Snyder, Timothy (2012-10-02). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books. ISBN 9780465032976.
- ^ Zuckerman, Yitzhak ("Antek") (1993-05-07). A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. University of California Press. p. 302. ISBN 9780520912595.
Izrael Kanal.