Rozka Korczak

Rozka or Ruzka Korczak (1921, Płock – 1988) was a Polish Jewish partisan leader during World War II. She served in the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye) and, alongside Vitka Kempner and founder Abba Kovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Avengers (Nokmim)--the only known undefeated ghetto uprising in the history of the Holocaust.

Rozka Korczak (standing, third from the left) with members of the FPO in the Vilna Ghetto. Abba Kovner is to her right, and Vitka Kempner is at far right.

Early life

Korczak was born in April 1921 in Bieslko, to a cattle dealer.[1] Her family moved to a small village in Plosk where she attended public school.[2] In eighth grade, she organized a Jewish student strike to protest Anti-Semetism in the school.[1] As a teenager, she joined a Zionist organization called HaShomer HaTzair.[2]

Career

In 1939, Korczak met Vitka Kempner in Vilna and the two joined The Young Guard, a Jewish rebellion group.[3] Upon Germany's invasion of Poland, she co-founded the United Partisan Organization (FPO) in 1942.[4] They smuggled weapons into the Vilna Ghetto and smuggled Jews out.[3]

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References
  1. "Rozka Korczak-Marla". jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  2. Paul R. Bartrop; Steven Leonard Jacobs (December 17, 2014). Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection. ABC-CLIO. p. 1288. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  3. Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present - Bernard A. Cook - Google Books
  4. "ROZKA KORCZAK-MARLA". jwa.org. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
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