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I posted here this picture of the Menachem Begin Heritage Center employees, during our rectn trip in the footsteps of Menachem Begin, at the site where the Warsaw Ghetto battle at Muranowska Square took place:
I have now been informed that a new memorial site has been fixed at the site where Pawel Frank(i)el, ZZW commander, was killed at Grzybowska Street 5a while attempting to elude the Germans and reach the forests. His small force managed to kill four Germans before they were killed in the firefight.
Wojciech Pluciński writes
On Sunday was 73 death anniversary of Paweł Frenkel and at the ceremony were
Mr. Paweł Szrot - Secretary of State in the Polish Prime Minister's Office - Represented by Mrs. Beata Szydło - Polish Prime Minister,
Mr. Jan Dziedziczak - Secretary of State in Polish Ministry of Forgein Affairs - Represented by Mr. Witold Waszczykowski - Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (on behalf of the Polish Government),
Mr. Jacek Polańczyk - Director of the Cabinet Head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression - Represented by Mr. Jan Józef Kasprzyk - Head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression (during the ceremony read the letter of the Head of Office)
Colonel Joachim Franke - Defence Attache at the Embassy of Germany in Poland,
Mr. Piotr Olejniak - Representative of Mazowieckie Province Governor,
Representatives of the Mayor of Warsaw,
Representatives of the Mayor of Downtown district in Warsaw,
Rabbi Jehoshua Ellis - Representing the Chief Rabbi of Poland,
Photographs:
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Stefan Wladyslaw was a member of the Revisionist ZZW militia fighting in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis.
Yesterday was the ceremony of the unveiling of a new gravestone marker at his burial site which is also the symbolic grave of all the soldiers of the Jewish Military Union, members of Betar and the Revisionist Movement who were not allowed to join the rest of the left-wing figthing groups. It took place at the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw at Okopowa Street yesterday. Prominent on the new marker is the name of Pawel Frenkel, the ZZW commander.
Pictures I received via Moshe Arens and Wojciech Pluciński, the latter of the Komitet Hadar there in Poland:
Stefan's importance is that on May 17, 1942, disguised as an Aryan, he crossed over from the ghetto and sent a telegram to Hillel Tzur, an Irgun emissary to the Irgun cells organizing in Poland, who had returned to Netanya in Mandate Palestine only in September 1939. It was hoped that the telegram would, however innocuously worded it was because of the Nazi censor, would alert Jews outside as to the terrible reality.
The telegram indeed was sent from the Red Cross offices although part of it indeed was crossed out on May 17, 1942. It actually reachyed Tzur on August 31, 1942 but its cryptic message was not understood.
On February 4, 1943, Stefan was again outside the ghetto attempting to purchase weapons for the ZZW.
Upon finishing his task, he began his return but was accosted by German soldiers.
He pulled out his own pistol and engaged the Nazis in battle, killing two before being killed.
His comrades recovered his body and buried him in the Jewish cemetery. The original tombstone noting his ZZW membership and his nom de gurre, Nesher (Eagle):
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