Lejb Rotblat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1918
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Date of Death: 08-May-1943
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Lejb Rotblat
- Lejb (Lutek) Rotblat (born October 14, 1918 in Warsaw – May 8, 1943 in Warsaw) – activist of the Jewish resistance movement in the Warsaw Ghetto, member of Jewish Combat Organisation (ZOB), participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He came from an assimilated Jewish family.
- He lost his father when he was little.
- After graduation from high school in 1937 he became a counsellor at HaNoar HaTzioni youth organisation.
- During World War II he joined the Zionist Bnei Akiva youth movement.
- He lived together with his mother Maria (Miriam) Rotblat at 44 Muranowska Street in Warsaw.
- In March 1943 Arie Wilner found refuge in their flat.
- When deportation to Treblinka extermination camp took place in the summer of 1942 he and his mother, director of an orphanage at 18 Mylna Street, hid a group of Jewish children in one of the houses in the ghetto.On February 22, 1943 he participated in elimination of a Gestapo agent, Alfred Nossig. Between January and April 1943 he took part in actions of collecting weapons for ZOB.
- He was also engaged in production of weapons in the ghetto (hand grenades, bottles with petrol).
- On the eve of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in April 1943 he was appointed a commander of his group formed of Bnei Akiva members.
- The group fought in the so-called central ghetto area. On May 8, 1943 he was with his mother in the bunker at 18 Mila Street.
- When the bunker was discovered by the Germans, the fighters did not want to surrender.
- At command of Arie Wilner the majority of fighters committed suicide.
- Lutek shot his mother first, at her own request, and later took his own life. He is buried in a mass grave along with other deceased ZOB fighters in the spot where they perished, because no exhumation was ever conducted at 18 Mila Street.
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