Yitzhak Zuckerman

Yitzhak Zuckerman was born in 1915 in Vilnius

Zuckerman was born in Vilnius in 1915 to a Zionist, traditional family. He attended a religious elementary school and then a Hebrew gymnasium, finishing in 1933. He was accepted to university but did not begin studies.

He joined HeHalutz and HeHalutz Hatzair and lived in pioneer training settings. In 1938 he became a secretary general of the Dror-Hehalutz movement. After war broke out in 1939 he organized underground groups, and in 1940 he moved to Warsaw.

In 1942 he helped found the Jewish Combat Organization and became deputy to commander Mordechai Anielewicz. During the 1943 uprising he worked outside the ghetto to obtain arms and linked the fighters with the Polish underground. He helped organize the escape of surviving fighters through the sewers.

After the war he worked with the Bricha network, and in 1947 he moved to the Land of Israel. With his wife Zivia Lubetkin he was among the founders of Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot and the Ghetto Fighters' House museum. In 1961 he testified at the Eichmann trial, and he died at the kibbutz in 1981.