Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum

Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum (some sources give Mieczysław or Mordechaj as his second name, and Appelbaum as his surname), nom de guerre "Kowal" ("Blacksmith") (?-4/28/1943) was an officer in the Polish Army and a commander of the Jewish Military Union (Żydowski Związek Wojskowy, ŻZW), during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (See Dawid Wdowiński.) In 1939 Apfelbaum was a Lieutenant in the Polish Army. During the German invasion of Poland he fought in the defence of the Polish capital Warsaw.

After Poland's defeat together with many other Jews in Polish Army as well as Polish-Jewish political leaders he founded the ŻZW. In structures of the organization, Apfelbaum was the chief of the department of communication with Korpus Bezpieczeństwa and Armia Krajowa on "Aryan" site of Warsaw. Together with Paweł Frenkiel he was also a leader of the war department in ŻZW. In the mean time, Armia Krajowa secured his promotion to Captain from the Polish government in exile.

During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Captain Apfelbaum was commander of a squad who took part in the heavy fighting in defense of the Muranowski Square. ^[1] He was killed in the first days of uprising.

After his death command of AK promoted him to the rank of Major in the Polish Army. In 2004, the mayor of Warsaw Lech Kaczyński had a square named for Apfelbaum in the city's Wola district.

References

• Chaim Lazar, Matsada shel Varsha (Tel Aviv: Machon Jabotinsky, 1963).
• English) David Wdowiński, And we are not saved. (New York: Philosophical Library,1963).

Other Polish non--Christian World War Two soldiers

• Baruch Steinberg
• Mieczyslaw Norwid-Neugebauer
• Aleksander Jeljaszewicz

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1. ^ "When we invaded the Ghetto for the first time, the Jews and the Polish bandits succeeded in repelling the participating units, including tanks and armored cars, by a well-prepared concentration of fire. (...) The main Jewish battle group, mixed with Polish bandits, had already retired during the first and second day to the so-called Muranowski Square. There, it was reinforced by a considerable number of Polish bandits. Its plan was to hold the Ghetto by every means in order to prevent us from invading it. (...)" source: "The Stroop report", Pantheon 1986 ISBN 0394738179

External links

• (English) Moshe Arens (May 2003). "The Changing Face of Memory: Who Defended The Warsaw Ghetto?". Jerusalem Post. http://www.freeman.org/m_online/may03/arens.htm. Retrieved 2006-05-09. 
• A legendary commander Apfelbaum
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Name	Apfelbaum, Dawid Moryc
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