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Szymon Drenger

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Szymon Drenger
Born1917 (1917)
Kraków, Poland
Died8 November 1943(1943-11-08) (aged 25–26)
Kraków, Poland

Szymon Drenger, also Szymon Draenger (1917 — 8 November 1943), was a Polish-Jewish partisan. He was the leader of a Jewish partisan organization known as the Fighting Pioneer, in Hebrew Hechalutz Ha'Lochem, during World War II.[1] He and three other members of the Fighting Pioneer attacked and killed 20 German soldiers in a cafe.[2] Szymon Drenger and his wife Gusta Dawidson Draenger were also part of the underground organization and both were killed by Gestapo on 8 November 1943.[1]

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  1. ^ a b http://warszawa.getto.pl/index.php?mod=view_record&rid=1453015213951984783&tid=osoby&lang=en (in Polish)
  2. ^ Aderet, Ofer (September 19, 2015). "Anti-Nazi Fighters the History Books Forgot About". Haaretz. Retrieved September 19, 2015.(subscription required)