Simcha Rotem, the last surviving warrior of the 1943 uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto, has passed away at the age of 94. Rotem served as a courier between those who fought in what was the greatest act of armed Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, and those who were fighting on the side of the “Aryans” — the Nazis.
The greatest act of armed Jewish resistance during the Holocaust occurred in the Warsaw ghetto. Simcha Rotem,the last surviving fighter of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, has passed away at the age of 94. This is his lesson for the next generations.
May his memory be a blessing. pic.twitter.com/07BgoKIRxY
— WJC (@WorldJewishCong)
Baruch Dayan Emet.