Yitzhak Wittenberg

Yitzhak Wittenberg (1907 – 16 July 1943) (Yiddish: איציק װיטנבערג‎, Hebrew: יצחק ויטנברג‎) was a Jewish resistance fighter in Vilnius during World War II. He was a member of the Communist Party. He was the commander of the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO), a resistance group in the Vilna Ghetto which was preparing an uprising should the final moments of the Ghetto come. When the Germans learned about the existence of a Communist, Wittenberg, in the Ghetto, they made a request to the head of the Jewish council, Jacob Gens, that Wittenberg should be surrendered to them. Gens betrayed Wittenberg to the police who arrested him, but he was freed by young FPO fighters. Subsequently Gens insisted that Wittenberg surrender. Feeling he did not have the support of the Ghetto for an uprising

Yitzhak Wittenberg

Yitzhak Wittenberg (1907 – 16 July 1943) (Yiddish: איציק װיטנבערג‎, Hebrew: יצחק ויטנברג‎) was a Jewish resistance fighter in Vilnius during World War II. He was a member of the Communist Party. He was the commander of the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO), a resistance group in the Vilna Ghetto which was preparing an uprising should the final moments of the Ghetto come. When the Germans learned about the existence of a Communist, Wittenberg, in the Ghetto, they made a request to the head of the Jewish council, Jacob Gens, that Wittenberg should be surrendered to them. Gens betrayed Wittenberg to the police who arrested him, but he was freed by young FPO fighters. Subsequently Gens insisted that Wittenberg surrender. Feeling he did not have the support of the Ghetto for an uprising