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Marek Edelman

    He was born on 31 of December, 1922 in Homel (now Belarus). He is a Jewish-Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, and the last living leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

    He moved with his parents to Warsaw. In 1942, as a youth leader in the Bund, Edelman was among the founders of the underground Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Jewish Fighting Organization). In the Warsaw ghetto uprising of April-May 1943, Edelman became one of the three ZOB sub-commanders in the brush makers' area of the ghetto. Edelman survived the uprising's suppression and the ghetto's liquidation, and managed to escape aided by underground activists of the Armia Ludowa (People's Army). He joined the Polish underground Armia Krajowa (Home Army), and in the summer of 1944 participated in the Warsaw Uprising.

    After the Second World War he did not leave Poland and studied at the Medical University in Lodz. He has been living in Lodz since 1946.

    In 1976 he became an activist with the Komitet Obrony Robotnikow (Workers' Defence Committee) and later of the Solidarity movement. During the period of martial law in 1981, he was interned. He took part in the Round Table Talks and served as a member of the Sejm (Polish parliament) from 1989 until 1993.

    On April 17, 1998, Marek Edelman was awarded with Poland's highest decoration, the Order of the White Eagle.

    In a 2004 interview, Marek Edelman supported Operation Iraqi Freedom, arguing that Fascism has to be defeated by all means.

    In Hanna Krall's book "Zdazyc przed Panem Bogiem" ("Be There Before God") Edelman retells in detail the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.