Hirsch Berlinski was born in 1908. He was member of the Left Poalai Zion party and one of the organizers of the Jewish Combat Organization. In opposition to calls from community leaders in

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for accommodation with the invading forces, he was an advocate of collective resistance against the

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. During the

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he commanded a group of Poalai Zion fighters in the main ghetto. He escaped through the sewage system in the Aryan sector. He was killed during the

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on September 27, 1944.

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1908 births 1944 deaths Warsaw Ghetto inmates Jewish Combat Organization members {{Judaism-bio-stub Polish Zionists Poale Zion politicians