Simcha Rotem, the last surviving fighter from the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, has died in Jerusalem, aged 94.
He was 15 when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. Although feeling “utterly helpless”, he joined the Zob, the ghetto’s Jewish combat organisation, in 1942.
The following year, with many of the ghetto’s inhabitants dead and those remaining facing deportation, he stood with those who decided to fight.
Although thousands died in the uprising, he helped many fighters escape through the drainage system.
