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Yitzhak Zuckerman (December 13, 1915 – June 17, 1981), also known by his nom de guerre “Antek“, was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 against Nazi Germany during World War II.
Zuckerman was born on December 13, 1915, in Vilnius, then part of the Russian Empire. After World War I Vilnius became part of the recreated Polish state. As a young man, he embraced the concepts of Labor Zionism. He graduated from a religious elementary school associated with the Mizrachi Zionist movement, followed by a Hebrew gymnasium in 1933. He applied to study at the University of Vilnius and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, but never began university studies.
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