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This book (79pg) by Marek Edelman was written just after the end of WWII, in 1945. It is an account of the heroic armed struggle of Jewish groups and individuals inside the Warsaw Ghetto against the fascist, occupying Nazi murderers. Marek Edelman was the highest leader of the ŻOB (The Jewish Combat Organization, the organization which united and directed Jewish armed resistance to the Nazis inside the Warsaw Ghetto) to survive the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He was a member of the Jewish Labor Bund in Poland before and during the war, and later was a prominent supporter of the Solidarnosc movement against the stalinist government of Poland. The Jewish Labor Bund was a socialist, anti-zionist group and they advocated staying in Poland and fighting for socialism and equality. Edelman himself was radically anti-zionist, and viewed himself as a Polish Jew who would thus obviously stay in his home country Poland, which he did after WWII.