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Yitzhak Zuckerman (Resister and Rescuer) Yitzhak Zuckerman was born in Vilna, Poland in 1915. He was Jewish so he attended a Hebrew high school. He was passionate about his Jewish religion. After leaving his high school, he joined the Zionist youth movement in 1936. Zionists were people who were trying to find somewhere for Jews to live peacefully, a place that was devoted to them and their religion: that is now Israel. In the youth group, he educated Jewish youth in Hebrew and Yiddish. After the Poland invasion, Zuckerman moved to the Soviet Union but Zionist leaders ordered him to return and continue teaching. In 1942, he and two other people attacked a café in [|Cracow] that was being used by the [|SS] ( [|Schutz Staffeinel] ) and [|Gestapo]. The Schutz Staffeinel and the Gestapo were German state secret police groups who were Nazis. They were known for their brutal methods and operations. He was a commander of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. This uprising was a conflict where the Jews tried to fight back and take Germany’s power away. He later became the founder of the Jewish Fighting Organization. They took effective control of the ghetto. This organization was very successful because all together, they shipped about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka. Yitzhak was ordered to leave the ghetto to serve as a liaison. He exchanged information between different organizations to the Polish underground. He also procured weapons, which were very difficult to get. He later returned to the ghetto to help save last survivors. Zuckerman smuggled Jewish refugees out of Europe to Palestine. He led the survivors through sewers for safety. To the people in the café in Cracow, they probably thought that Zuckerman was a violent person, but they didn’t know the reason why he was attacking. He was attacking it to stop those horrible Nazi groups from doing bad things to the Jews. I think that Yitzhak Zuckerman was a resister because he opposed actions; in this case, he opposed the actions of the Nazi’s. He took action by creating organizations, become part of movements, and save Jewish survivors. He opposed actions by armed resistance because he fought back for what he believed in. Zuckerman was also a rescuer because like I mentioned before, he got Jews out of Europe. I know that the Jewish people were grateful to have someone as brave as Yitzhak to risk his life to free them. After surviving the war, he began drinking and suffered mental aguish. In 1947, Yitzhak immigrated to Israel. In Israel, he established the Ghetto Fighter’s Kibbutz and the Ghetto Fighter’s museum.