Tosia Altman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Member of the Polish resistance in World War II
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Place of Birth: Włocławek, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
About Tosia Altman
- Tosia Altman (Hebrew: ????? ??????) (24 August 1919 – 26 May 1943) was a courier and smuggler for Hashomer Hatzair and the Jewish Combat Organization (ZOB) during the German occupation of Poland and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Born into a well-off family of Zionist leanings, she joined Hashomer Hatzair and became part of the central leadership before the war.
- After the invasion of Poland, she fled with the leadership of the youth movements to Vilnius.
- Volunteering as a courier, she passed herself off as a Polish gentile and risked her life to visit ghettos, first to organize underground education and later to warn them of the impending mass extermination of Jews.
- After the formation of the ZOB in the Warsaw Ghetto, Altman was appointed a liaison to the Home Army.
- She smuggled weapons and explosives into the ghetto and established a chapter of the ZOB in the Kraków Ghetto.
- During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, she acted as a courier between bunkers.
- Seeking shelter at the command bunker at 18 Mila Street, she was one of six to escape when the Germans discovered it.
- Despite suffering wounds to the leg and head, Altman escaped from the ghetto via the sewers.
- She was captured two weeks later when the factory she was sheltering in caught fire.
- Severely burned, she was handed over to the Gestapo and died two days later.
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