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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Warsaw ghetto survivor carries out 70-year-old mission | The Times of Israel

Aliza Mendel was only 14 when she was ordered to escape and tell the world how her fellow Jews died fighting the Nazis. 
In this April 4, 2013 photo, Warsaw Ghetto Holocaust survivor Aliza Vitis-Shomron, nee Mendel, holds a photograph of herself when she was about 17 years old as she sits in her living room in Kibbutz Givat Oz, Israel. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two days before her comrades embarked on an uprising that came to symbolize Jewish resistance against the Nazis in World War II, 14-year-old Aliza Mendel got her orders: Escape from the Warsaw Ghetto. 

The end was near. Nazi troops had encircled the ghetto, and the remaining Jewish rebels inside were prepared to die fighting. They had few weapons, and they felt there was no point in giving one of them to a teenage girl whose main task to that point had been distributing leaflets...........

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