Henryk Lederman, (nom-de-guerre "Heniek") (born ?; died 5 September 1944 in Warsaw) was a cadet officer of the Polish Army who participated in the

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; pl, powstanie w getcie warszawskim; german: link=no, Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany' ...

and the

Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led ...

. His branch in the Polish Army was the Radosław Group in the Broda 53 regiment. After the end of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Lederman was placed in the Gęsiówka concentration camp. On the fifth day of the Warsaw Uprising Gęsiówka was liberated by a unit led by

Wacław Micuta Wacław Micuta (pseudonym ''Wacek''; Petrograd, Russia, 6 December 1915 – 21 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland) was a Polish economist, World War II veteran, and United Nations functionary. He took part in the September 1939 defense of Pol ...

. Henryk Lederman gathered a group of the freed prisoners and presented them to Micuta as a Jewish Battalion ready to fight. He served as a mechanic in the armored platoon headed by Micuta. Shortly thereafter he fought in Old Town, in

Wola Wola (, ) is a district in western Warsaw, Poland, formerly the village of Wielka Wola, incorporated into Warsaw in 1916. An industrial area with traditions reaching back to the early 19th century, it underwent a transformation into an office (co ...

, where, together with David Goldman he served as a guide through the sewers which he was familiar with since the Ghetto uprising. He was wounded in later fighting and transported to the insurgent hospital on Drewniana street, in the Riverside district. On September 5 the hospital was taken by German troops and all its patients, including Lederman, were murdered. He was posthumously awarded the Cross of Valor.

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