Holocaust Survivors OCT 26, 2025
WATCH: One of the last surviving fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising dies aged 99
Global tributes paid to the heroism of Michael Smuss, who fought Nazis with Molotov cocktails from the rooftops
One of the last surviving fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising has died, with international tributes paid to his bravery – and his legacy.
Michael Smuss passed away at his home in Israel.
Born on April 15 1926, in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), Smuss was still a teenager when war engulfed Europe. At the age of fourteen, he and hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of the Nazi ghettos created during the Holocaust.
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