SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mordechai Anielewicz

1919 - 1943

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Mordechai Anielewicz (Hebrew: מרדכי אנילביץ'; 1919 – 8 May 1943) was the leader of the Jewish Combat Organization (Polish: Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB) during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish resistance movement during the Second World War. Anielewicz inspired further rebellions in both ghettos and extermination camps with his leadership. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mordechai Anielewicz has received more than 355,522 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Mordechai Anielewicz is the 124th most popular social activist (down from 111th in 2019), the 213th most popular biography from Poland (down from 182nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Social Activist.

Mordechai Anielewicz was a Polish Jew who was the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He was a member of the Zionist Socialist Workers Party.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mordechai Anielewicz ranks 124 out of 840Before him are Hans Scholl, Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Sophia of Prussia, Gaius Julius Civilis, Betty Ford, and Flora Tristan. After him are Al-Mu'tazz, Denis Mukwege, Antipope Clement III, Georgy Gapon, George Stinney, and Steve Biko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Mordechai Anielewicz ranks 37Before him are Moïse Tshombe, Leon Festinger, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, César Manrique, James M. Buchanan, and James Lovelock. After him are Jennifer Jones, Gillo Pontecorvo, Jackie Robinson, Pete Seeger, Georges Duby, and Charles Sweeney. Among people deceased in 1943, Mordechai Anielewicz ranks 32Before him are Jean Moulin, Leslie Howard, Etty Hillesum, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, Hans Scholl, and Franz Oppenheimer. After him are André Antoine, Oskar Schlemmer, Viktor Lutze, Lydia Litvyak, Luz Long, and Nicholas J. Spykman.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Mordechai Anielewicz ranks 213 out of 1,694Before him are Paul Tillich (1886), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Henryk Górecki (1933), Przemysł II (1257), Karl Denke (1860), and Stanislaus Kostka (1550). After him are Yisrael Kristal (1903), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Piast the Wheelwright (800), Władysław I Herman (1043), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), and Leszek Kołakowski (1927).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Mordechai Anielewicz ranks 4Before him are Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Irena Sendler (1910), and Ferdinand Lassalle (1825). After him are Jan Karski (1914), Leopold Trepper (1904), Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901), Czesława Kwoka (1943), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Franceska Mann (1917), and Danuta Wałęsa (1949).