WARSAW, Poland (AP) Marek Edeleman, last surviving leader of the WWII Warsaw ghetto uprising, dies at age 90.



Marek Edelman (born 31 December 1922 - died 2 October 2009) was a Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, and the last leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. Died on 2nd October 2009 in Warsaw.



In 1942, as a Bund youth leader, Edelman was a founder of the underground Jewish Combat Organization (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa). In the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April–May 1943, led by Mordechai Anielewicz, Edelman became one of the three sub-commanders, and the leader after the death of Anielewicz. Edelman survived the suppression of the uprising and the Ghetto's liquidation and managed to escape, aided by Polish underground activists of Armia Ludowa (the People's Army). He later joined the Polish underground Home Army and in the summer of 1944 participated in the Warsaw Uprising.