“Honestly, it was not about fighting for survival, it was simply our fight against them. It was our fight for dignity. Primarily for dignified death. The death on my own terms, based on my rules.” Marek Edelman
Edelman was the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
He then fought in the general Warsaw uprising of 1944, attempting to liberate the city from the Nazis.
After the war, he remained in Poland. He not only became a noted cardiologist but became an activist in the Polish anti-communist underground movement - Solidarność.