Maurycy Orzech was a Polish economist, journalist, politician and a leader of the Jewish Bund in interwar Poland.
10 Facts About Maurycy Orzech
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Maurycy Orzech was one of the commanders of the Bund during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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Maurycy Orzech was member of the Bund affiliated Morgnshtern sports organization.
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Maurycy Orzech owned a textile manufacturing factory, "Bazar Orzecha" which was very profitable.
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Maurycy Orzech used money from his business to finance the Yiddish newspaper Folkstsaytung, of which he was an editor.
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Maurycy Orzech worked on the production of underground newspapers, including the Bundist Der Verker.
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Maurycy Orzech was summoned by Judenrat president Adam Czerniakow and asked that the Bund cease circulating its illegal newspapers.
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However, Maurycy Orzech correctly surmised that the newspapers were just an excuse and that the mass executions were simply the first step in total extermination of Warsaw's Jews.
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Maurycy Orzech wrote bulletins and proclamations to the residents of the ghetto not to trust the Germans and not to volunteer for supposed "labor in Germany" from the Umschlagplatz.
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Generally, Maurycy Orzech saw the struggle of Poles and Jews against the German occupants as one and the same and favored the merger of Jewish resistance into Polish resistance.