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Simcha Rotem (born Simcha (Szymon) Rathajzer, also known by his nom de guerre Kazik; 24 February 1924 – 22 December 2018) was a Polish-Israeli veteran who was a member of the Jewish underground in Warsaw and served as the head courier of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB), which planned and executed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ...
Simha Rotem (Ratheiser), known as "Kazik," was born in 1924 in Warsaw, Poland. He was the eldest of four children in the family. When Kazik was twelve, he joined a Zionist Youth Movement called "Hanoar Hazioni".
During the final phases of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a Jewish resistance fighter named Simcha Rotem smuggled survivors out of the burning ghetto through sewage tunnels.
Dec 22, 2018 · Rotem was one of the last surviving members of the Jewish Combat Organization that resisted the Nazis in 1943. He later helped partisans and avenged Nazi war criminals, and made aliyah to Israel in 1946.
Dec 22, 2018 · Simcha Rotem, also known as Kazik, was one of the Jewish partisans who rose up against the Nazis when they began mass deportations from the Polish capital. Thousands died in the uprising but...
Dec 22, 2018 · Simcha Rotem, also known as Kazik, was one of the Jewish partisans who rose up against the Nazis when they began mass deportations from the Polish capital. Thousands died in the uprising but...
Dec 24, 2018 · Simcha Rotem, an Israeli Holocaust survivor who was among the last known Jewish fighters from the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis, died Dec. 22 in Jerusalem. He was 94. Israeli...
