I was a Jew in my early 20s living in the Warsaw ghetto. In my life I’ve encountered many things that give me nightmares till this day. During the process my family was stripped from me and killed. Sometimes I have night terrors about the things I’ve experienced. May 26, 1943 was the day I was recruited to the Jewish Combat Organization.
A man named Mordecai Anielwicz recruited me to his group of rebellions to fight against the Nazis. Our group did not have much weapons besides pistols and homemade grenades. I never saw myself killing anyone in my lifetime the Warsaw ghetto was a battlefield between us Jews and those Nazis. In my mindset it was either me or them.
The first day we ambushed the Germans. I was scared because I never