Adolf Liebeskind

Adolf Liebeskind was born in Poland. On 22nd December 1942, Liebeskind, Gole Mire and Yitzhak Zuckerman took part in an attack on a café used by the Schutz Staffeinel (SS) and the Gestapo. Libeskind was later tracked down and killed.

Primary Sources

(1) Leaflet published by the Jewish Self-Defence Organization (December 1942)

Do not go willingly to your death! Fight for life to the last breath. Greet our murders with teeth and claws, with axe and knife, hydrochloric acid and iron crowbars. Make the enemy pay for blood with blood, for death with death?

Let us fall upon the enemy in time, kill and disarm him. Let us stand up against the criminals and if necessary die like heroes. If we die in this way we are not lost.

Make the enemy pay dearly for your lives! Take revenge for the Jewish centres that have been destroyed and for the Jewish lives that have been extinguished.