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Rotem, Śimḥah

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Personal name headingRotem, Śimḥah
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Variant(s)Rotem, Ḳaz'iḳ
Rotem, Simha
Rotem, Simcha
Kazik
Ratajzer, Szymek
רותם, שמחה
Rotem, Symcha
Ratajzer, Szymon
Birth date1924-02-24
Death date2018-12-22
Place of birthTs'ernyaḳov (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Place of deathJerusalem
Field of activityWarsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944 World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements
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Found inHis Uve-tokhi he-ʻavar-- , 1983 or 1984, c1984: t.p. (Śimḥah Rotem (Ḳaz'iḳ)) p. 15, etc. (b. in Ts'ernyaḳov, a suburb of Warsaw; Bar-mitsṿah in 1937; imm. to Palestine in 1945)
His The past within me, 1994: CIP t.p. (Simha Rotem (Kazik))
Wspomnienia bojowca ŻOB, 1993: t.p. (Simcha Rotem "Kazik") p. 159 (Szymek Ratajzer)
Wspomnienia powstańca z warszawskiego getta, 2012: t.p. (Symcha Rotem, Szymon "Kazik" Ratajzer) p. 4 of cover (b. 1924)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 31, 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 [2018] in Jerusalem. He was 94. Mr. Rotem, who went by the underground nickname "Kazik," took part in the single greatest act of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Mr. Rotem was born Szymon Rathajzer in Warsaw on Feb. 24, 1924. After the war, Mr. Rotem immigrated to pre-state Israel)
Associated languageheb pol