Jewish Military Union

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The Jewish Military Union was a right-wing Zionist underground resistance organization in the Warsaw Ghetto that played a key role in armed Jewish resistance against the Nazis during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish resistance organization
Zionist organization
underground military organization
abbreviation ŻZW
activePeriod 1942
1943
alsoKnownAs Żydowski Związek Wojskowy
conflict Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
World War II
cooperatedWith Home Army
Jewish Combat Organization
Polish underground
country Poland
dissolved 1943
enemy German police
Gestapo
SS
ethnicGroup Jews
foundedBy Betar activists
Haganah members in Poland
Revisionist Zionists
linked to: Revisionist Zionism
hasPart combat units
intelligence units
liaison units
ideology Revisionist Zionism
right-wing Zionism
language Hebrew
Polish
Yiddish
location Warsaw
Warsaw Ghetto
notableCommander Dawid Wdowiński
Henryk Iwański (Polish liaison and commander of cooperating unit)
Pawel Frenkel
notableEvent defense of Muranowska Square during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
raising of Polish and Zionist flags over Muranowska 7
notableFor key role in armed Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
operationalGoal armed resistance against deportations
defense of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto
opposedTo German occupation of Poland
Nazi Germany
organizedAs clandestine cells
partOf Jewish resistance in German-occupied Poland
Polish underground resistance network (through contacts)
religion Judaism
used grenades
improvised explosives
pistols
smuggled weapons
submachine guns

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising organizedBy Jewish Military Union
Warsaw Ghetto resistanceOrganization Jewish Military Union (ŻZW)
linked to: Jewish Military Union
Jewish Military Union alsoKnownAs Żydowski Związek Wojskowy
linked to: Jewish Military Union
Jewish underground organizations notableExample Jewish Military Union
Jewish underground organizations notableExample Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye
linked to: Jewish Military Union
Henryk Iwański supportedOrganization Jewish Military Union
Henryk Iwański supportedOrganization Żydowski Związek Wojskowy
linked to: Jewish Military Union
ŻZW fullName Żydowski Związek Wojskowy
linked to: Jewish Military Union
ŻZW fullNameInEnglish Jewish Military Union