Yitzhak Zuckerman

Yitzhak Zuckerman (Polish: Icchak Cukierman; Hebrew: יצחק צוקרמן; 13 December 1915 – 17 June 1981), also known by his nom de guerre "Antek", was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 against Nazi Germany during World War II.

[1] He lived in a Vilnius kibbutz on Subocz Street, then on a farm training pioneers in Grochów near Warsaw.

[2] In the spring of 1940 he moved to Warsaw, where he became one of the leaders of the Dror Hechaluc youth movement, along with his future wife Zivia Lubetkin.

[4] Along with Simcha "Kazik" Rotem, he organized the escape of the surviving ZOB fighters through the sewers to safety.

[5] After the war he worked as part of the Bricha network, whose operatives smuggled Jewish refugees out of Eastern and Central Europe to Mandate Palestine.

[4] His granddaughter Roni Zuckerman became the Israeli Air Force's first female fighter pilot.