Person · resistance fighter
Chawe Chalef
Chawe Chalef
Sixteen-year-old resistance fighter killed while throwing a grenade.
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... From another side of the ghetto, well-armed
Ukrainian and White Russian Nazis entered the streets
in tanks. They were greeted by hand grenades hurled by
the heroic young Jewish resistance fighters. Chawe
Chalef, a heroic 16-year-old, was killed in a hail of
bullets as she threw the first grenade. The slaughter of
the ghetto Jews was carried out with typical German
efficiency and precision. Gestapo officers on motorcy-
cles made the rounds of the streets, spraying everything
in sight with machine gun bullets and hurling grenades.
These couriers of death remained in constant contact
with Gestapo headquarters at the Judenrat building.
Approximately 3,000 Nazis participated in liquidating
the Bialystok ghetto. ...Connected nodes
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