Yitzhak Wittenberg (Yiddish: איציק װיטנבערג, Hebrew: יצחק ויטנברג; 1907 – 16 July 1943) was a Jewish resistance fighter[1] in Vilnius during World War II.
When the Germans learned about the existence of a Communist, Wittenberg, in the ghetto, they made a request to the head of the Jewish council, Jacob Gens, that Wittenberg should be surrendered to them.
[3] Gens betrayed Wittenberg to the police who arrested him, but he was freed by young FPO fighters.
Feeling he did not have the support of the ghetto for an uprising and fearing a massacre, he surrendered.
[9] The story of his death is told in the song Yitzhak Wittenberg.