Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamarof

... Tenenbaum-Beker, Nina. Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamarof, Der Held Von Die Ghettos (Mordechaj Tenenbaum- Tamarof, The Hero of the Ghettos). Volume II. Tel Aviv, 1977. ...

... The appeal to fight the Nazis, issued by the under- ground on August 15, 1943, reportedly was written by Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamarof. This stirring call to arms galvanized the people to meet the enemy courageously. ...

... Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamarof described 06 feelings of the survivors of the “February action” as they emerged from their shelters: ...

... Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamarof established close contact with members of the Judenrat, particularly with its Chairman, Efrajim Barasz. At the end of 1942, when ...

In August 1943, when the Bialystok ghetto was finally liquidated, more suicides took place, among them Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamarof, one of the founders of the secret ghetto archive, and Dontel Mosz- kowicz, the communist. Only their Jewishness bound these two very different men to the same fate. In the surgical department of the Jewish Hospital on Fabryczna Street, as the patients were led away to be ...

... Life in the Bialystok ghetto was chronicled in sev- eral languages (Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish and German), under the supervision of Mordechaj Tenenbaum- Tamarof and Hersz Mersik. Tamaroff was one of the leading organizers of the armed resistance in the ghetto. ...

... The driving force behind the Tel Chai kibbutz, who later would be one of the heroes in the Bialystoker re- sistance against the Nazis, was Mordechaj Tenenbaum- Tamarof. He came to Bialystok during the war from Wilno, Warsaw and other places where he had been active in organizing and leading resistance campaigns against the Nazis. The kibbutz boasted of other young leaders and several scores of members committed to make Aliyah who later demonstrated tremendous hero- ism against the Nazi oppressors. They included: Cwi Hersz Mersik of Melnice, near Kowel; Herszl Cwi Rozental of Jaszynowka; Ruwen Rozenberg of Sucho- wolja; Chanoch Zelaznagora of Szedliec; Jochewed Wajnsztein of Knyszin; Gedalja Petljuk of Knyszin; Cypora Birman of Rozyszcze; Tema Sznajderman of Warsaw, and others. ...

... Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamarof foresaw that the Bialystok ghetto would be destroyed. It was up to him, as its archivist, to ensure their retrievability after the war. He entrusted the documents to a female friend and a Jewish doctor who had reliable connections outside the ghetto. After the war, the papers were recovered by these individuals, and eventually made their way to Israel, where they were later stored by the Yad Vashem documentation center. ...