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Ziuta Hartman

Ziuta Hartman was a fighter of the Jewish Military Union (ŻZW) in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and later passed on the memory of the Holocaust in Israel.

1922 to 2015Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighterCourier for the Jewish Military UnionPassing on Holocaust memory

Born: 5 October 1922, Kielce
Died: 19 May 2015, Tel Aviv
Wars: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Ziuta Hartman was born in 1922 in Kielce

Ziuta Hartman, born Rotenberg, was born in Kielce, Poland, in 1922. She lived there with her family until 1941. The Nazi authorities ordered the family, like all the Jews of Kielce, into the ghetto.

She was caught outside the Kielce ghetto without the yellow badge while looking for food, and escaped. She went first to the Radom ghetto and then to relatives in the Warsaw ghetto.

During the Great Action of July 1942, she met Avraham Rodal from her hometown, and his brother Leon recruited her to the ŻZW, led by Paweł Frenkel. She served as a courier, smuggling medicine, letters and weapons in buckets covered with small fish. She linked the walled ghetto with the rest of Warsaw and visited the group's posts.

On the eve of Passover 1943, as the uprising began, she was in a ŻZW bunker. She fought in the brushmakers' area, and on 21 April 1943 she treated wounded fighters in a bunker at 38 Świętojerska Street. She died in 2015.

Milestones in Ziuta Hartman's life

1922
Born in Kielce, Poland.
1941
Left her family's home in Kielce as the Jews were forced into the ghetto.
1942
Joined the Jewish Military Union in the Warsaw ghetto.
1943
Fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
2015
Died.

Ziuta Hartman served in the military

From 1942 she served as a courier and smuggler of arms for the Jewish Military Union in the Warsaw ghetto. In 1943 she fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the brushmakers' area.