Daniel Moszkowicz aka "Dawid Chone" and "Jerzy" (born 1905 in

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- 1943 in

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Białystok is located in the Białystok Up ...

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) was a merchant, non-commissioned reserve officer of the Polish Army,

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

and the co-leader of the Białystok Ghetto Uprising. He was member of the Communist Party of Poland. During the

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he worked as a cobbler and baker in the

ghetto A ghetto, often called ''the'' ghetto, is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially as a result of political, social, legal, environmental or economic pressure. Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished t ...

of Białystok and was member of the Antyfaszystowska Organizacja Bojowa. (Anti-Fascist Military Organization). He was co-leader of the

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during the first German attempt of liquidation of the ghetto in Białystok in January and February 1943. He also co-leading the Białystok Ghetto Uprising in August 1943. Moszkowicz is believed to have committed suicide surrounded by German troops.

Awards

Order of the Cross of Grunwald The Order of the Cross of Grunwald (') was a military decoration created in Poland in November 1943 by the High Command of Gwardia Ludowa, a Polish resistance movement in World War II, World War II Polish resistance movement organised by the Polis ...

(III Class)

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* Zofia Borzymińska, Rafał Żebrowski, Polski słownik judaistyczny, Warszawa 2003 {{DEFAULTSORT:Moszkowicz, Daniel 1905 births 1943 deaths Businesspeople from Warsaw People from Warsaw Governorate Communist Party of Poland politicians Polish resistance members of World War II Jewish resistance members during the Holocaust Białystok Ghetto inmates Jewish socialists

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